Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:17:39PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:02:43PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > Although the difference isn't that large in the case of "nl_BE" vs.
> > "nl_NL" (thanks to the euro), there is a difference; so even if in a
> > given case, assigning nl_NL to LC_MESSAGES has the same result as
> > assigning nl_BE to that same variable, there may still be a
> > significant difference.
>
> > OK, this assumes that the code actually cares about those other parts of
> > i18n which isn't the case in most situations, but still...
>
> Is this all theoretical, or can you think of a concrete case where l10n
> is used for something other than LC_MESSAGES in d-i proper?
I don't know whether it actually is the case; however, d-i should
certainly use LC_TIME (when setting the time, displaying ETA's, etc)
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