Re: i18n boot-floppies updated
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:29:38PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> Storing the chosen language in /etc somewhere will be the first step
> to getting a universal LANG being set; the default of C is no longer
> good enough, especially with glibc 2.2. For what it's worth, Red Hat
> has the default system language set from the very beginning, and
> doesn't ever use C at all.
There's a problem with this approach. Some languages are not supported
very well on the console -- eg. Asian languages. These languages might
need some special framebuffer programs to display the characters. If
the default locale was set to an Asian locale, and the framebuffer
program fails to load for some reason, then any i18n-ed console program
would display garbage.
A better approach IMHO is to leave the default locale to C, but make it
easy for individual users to choose their own locale. The package
language-env does this, though more modules and perhaps a GUI are
needed.
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