Re: How I want languagechooser to behave
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 08:01:05PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
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> This package should behava as follows:
>
> 0. extract available languages from list of available locales
> (mapping language code -> language name)
I disagree, there is no reason to propose languages which have no
translated templates.
> 1. present list of language names, and ask the user to pick one.
>
> 2. if the language is available in several regions (maps to several
> locales), ask which region / language variant to use. (allow
> user to [back] off to the language list.
Why don't merge 1 and 2 into a single list?
> 3. pass the locale information on to the parts that needs it.
>
> Based on this information a locale is selected. This locale maps to one
> language, one region, a priority list of fallback languages,
Does this mean that LANGUAGE is fully determined by this locale, or can
it be edited?
> and a default keyboard layout.
Shouldn't keyboard layout be handled by kbd-chooser?
> The language code is passed into cdebconf. The locale and priority
> list of languages is passed to base-config/termwrap as LANG_INST and
> LANGUAGE_INST in /target/root/dbootstrap_settings. The
Ok.
> For each supported locale, the following information must be
> available:
>
> - language code (part of locale)
> - country code (part of locale)
> - priority list of fallback languages to use as translations
> - default keymap to use
Denis
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