Re: Bug: chopped stings in dbootstrap
>I tried compiling Danish-only b-f for i386. It seems that the problem with
>chopped strings persist. (Strings are choped whenever a foreign letter is
>reached, so e.g. "Installr moduler til PCMCIA" becomes just "Install").
>I assume this is true for other languages too (as it was a month ago).
I tried this just now and it seems to be OK, at least running in a chroot.
(My ignorance of Danish is complete; I'm assuming that the text below
is actually the right language, and isn't truncated in some way that I
haven't spotted).
+-----------+ Debian GNU/Linux hovedinstallationsmenu +-----------+
| |
| Du skal angive, hvilken type tastatur, du har, inden tasterne |
| virker som forventet. Vælg "Næste" fra menuen for at sætte dit |
| tastatur op. |
| |
| +----------------------------------------------------------+ |
| | Installér fremmede moduler | |
| | Angiv værtsnavn | |
| | Sæt netværk op | |
| | Installér basissystem | |
| | Redigér kerneopstarts-tilvalg | |
| | Gør systemet opstartbart | |
| | Lav en opstartsdiskette | |
| | Genstart systemet | |
| | Vis partitionstabellen | |
| | Start en skal | |
| | Rapportér et problem | |
| | Genstart installationssystem | |
| +----------------------------------------------------------+ |
I suspect you might have some UTF-8 stuff getting into your build somehow.
The build-time checks are supposed to catch this, but maybe they aren't.
Do you have any of the UTF8 newt or slang packages installed?
p.
p.
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