On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:02:43PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:50:07AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:25:26AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > I don't think a two-stage selection is all that necessary. That seems > > > > like added complexity for little benefit; the list is only made a little > > > > longer by including all locales in a single list, and the fewer > > > > questions the better. > > > > > Sure, but do we really need to have this huge list of locales, some of > > > which being quite confidential (de_BE or de_NL, for > > > instance....german speaking parts of Belgium or Netherlands are indeed > > > really small....no offense intended, but how mmuch people will really > > > choose this?). On the other hand, this combination should be made > > > possible, so this is why I proposed to go to a 2 stage question. > > > > Is this a list of languages in which to run the installer, or a list of > > all available locales? Do we really have different d-i translations for > > de_BE vs. de_NL? > No, we don't. However, there are a few other things related to the > locale, such as the monetary unit, the default paper size, the collating > sequence, and so on. -- none of which are relevant to the installer, and should therefore not be tied to this initial question for that reason alone. > 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? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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