Re: The environment variable $LANGUAGE
> > framebuffer-enabled terminal (like jfbterm used in 1st stage) for
> > Chinese install. So the user will get garbled characters in the 2nd
> > stage of installation (the part running base-config), so most Chinese
> > users choose to install in English instead.
>
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 07:26:37AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> *That* is not true. 2nd stage runs fine with CJK languages because
> base-config is run under jfbterm. If it does not run fine, this is a
> bug.
I stand corrected. Actually I must confess that I've never done an
installation in Chinese myself - I've did some test to see if the
Chinese characters display correctly, but never finished the install.
For my own system I always install in English (and use an English
locale, for that matter).
I just heard a lot of Chinese users complain that there would be garbled
characters "after reboot". So I thought it was the 2nd stage of
installation. Sorry for the misleading message.
> However, the end system will display garbage *later*, if localized in
> CJK languages (or Arabic, Hebrew...) because jfbterm cannot be run as
> a login program. There's a discussion about this in localechooser bug
> log and no real possible solution.
I agree that is quite a hard problem to solve.
Ming
2005.11.05
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