On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 23:33, Denis Barbier wrote: > Hi, you did not send your message to debian-boot, do you want to post > it again, or do you want me to reply there? > Sorry. Late night. I meant debian-boot. > Denis > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:08:23PM +0000, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 22:01, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 08:01:05PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > [...] > > > > 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. > > > > There are (partial) translations for Linux into at least 58 languages > > (in iso-codes, I've collected translations for 58; I know the Indian > > translations do more that I've not seen); we have translations for a lot > > less. > > We want the user to be able to select languages once on setup; hence > > allow them to do it here; > > maybe we just show the 7 or so template-translated languages here, with > > "Other", allowing a fuller list, but .. > > given the modular nature of the installer, how do we know what > > translations we have in total? The full list is probably safer. > > > > > > > > 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? > > > > > > > kbd-chooser picks the default mostly based on language (it may also do > > so based on autodetecting kbd, particularly in the USB case). > > > > Please don't have languagechooser have knowledge of kbdmaps; this is > > complex enough as it is, and modularity should not be broken. > > > > > > Also, allow for the case that a (default) language and country may be > > autodetected and passed to languagechooser by a (as yet unwritten) > > previous module. Some BIOSes & bootloaders, eg the SRM console on > > Alphas, have language, country settings; a udeb might read these and use > > them to pick default languages,etc for languagechooser, in which case > > the languagechooser might lower the priority of the question, and allow > > that question to be skipped. > > > > - Alastair > > > > -- > > Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org> > > GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 > > > > He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from > > oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that > > will reach to himself. > > > > - --Thomas Paine > > > -- Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org> GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine
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