Re: i18n of tasksel (and cdebconf)
Hi,
From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Subject: Re: i18n of tasksel (and cdebconf)
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:40:24 +0200
> I believe it is OK to limit cdebconf to only handle UTF-8 encoded
> templates, but believe it should be able to output using other
> charsets as well. We will not need it in d-i, because we decided to
> standardize on UTF-8 output, but it might be useful for cdebconf to be
> a full debconf replacement.
I read debian-installer/doc/i18n.txt and understand why it limits
to UTF-8.
BTW, I tested (on UTF-8 terminal):
LANGUAGE=ja LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 dpkg-reconfigure -ftext ssh
LANGUAGE=ja LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 dpkg-reconfigure -fncurses ssh
LANGUAGE=ja LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 dpkg-reconfigure -fslang ssh
LANGUAGE=ja LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 dpkg-reconfigure -fnewt ssh
but all of them displayed "text" frontend (I guess). I have not
tested -fbogl and -fgtk because I am now using PuTTY.
Am I forgetting something?
> > This problem is not limited to Japanese. Since Korean, Chinese,
> > Russian, Greek, and so on are affected by this problem, Japanese-
> > specific solution is not very good, I think.
>
> If you see the language question in the beginning of d-i install, you
> should see character for all these langauges.
I understand that bogl-bterm and cdebconf is used for the Stage 1.
(Are there any other programs than cdebconf which is used for Stage 1 ?)
How about the Stage 2 ? Any internationalized terminals? Is the
selected language in the Stage 1 also living in the Stage 2 ?
Is tasksel used?
> BTW: Please check the question text in tools/languagechooser to make
> sure the japanese text matches the form of the other questions.
I found that Japanese sentense says "Push Enter to configure in Japanese
language" which is apparently different from English sentence.
Though I cannot read most of languages in the languagelist.l10n file,
many languages have "Enter" in the sentence, which implies they are
all outdated.
---
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
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