Bug#479208: debian-installer: text frontend isn't localized
Frans Pop, le Sat 03 May 2008 22:31:27 +0200, a écrit :
> reassign 479208 localechooser
Ah ok.
> On Saturday 03 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > When booting the installer (today's daily build of x86 mini.iso) with
> > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text , the language selection is reduced to C and
> > English. Is there a reason for that?
>
> The current assumption is that people using the text frontend are probably
> doing so because they have a very limited environment which may well not be
> able to handle characters that are not pure ASCII.
Well, I would say that that assumption should rather be based on
the kind of terminal (i.e. here, serial console, VT console, or
framebuffer), not on the kind of debconf frontend.
> If braille devices are guaranteed to be able to handle that
They do.
> You'll need to specify what range is supported based on the language levels
> defined for localechooser (e.g. are CJK languages supported; is Cyrillic or
> Greek?).
Well, it's the same as what the linux console itself can handle, i.e.
not CJK, Cyrillic or Greek, just because the fonts are not available in
the installer.
> See the README file in the source code for localechooser and the
Ok, I'll have a look at that.
Samuel
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