Bug#687249: debian-installer: Missing time zone region
Christian PERRIER, le Mon 17 Sep 2012 07:11:12 +0200, a écrit :
> Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthibault@debian.org):
>
> > > Frankly speaking, I have no idea why, in 2004, we decided to drop
> > > choices with non ASCII characters. I guess this is because of some
> > > limitation of debconf or po-debconf at that time. Or maybe because we
> > > have interfaces where only "pure" ASCII is possible.
> >
> > I guess gettext was perhaps just not ready for UTF-8 at the time? I had
> > to add [encoding: UTF-8] in the po template, and then it worked fine.
>
> Nice catch.
Well, the error message told me to do so :)
Samuel
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