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Re: Review language list in d-i



On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:28:07AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Denis Barbier]
> > Sorry to bother you again with this question, but we are using UTF-8
> > locales in debian-installer, so why isn't this
> >   English (USA);en_US.UTF-8;en;US;
> > ?
> 
> The locale is passed to base-config to enable translation there, and
> not used in debian-installer.  I suspect debian-installer will be
> using locale C@UTF-8 no matter the language.

Does C@UTF-8 even exist? Last time I looked it doesn't; the definition
of C in the standard is such that I feel it doesn't make very much
sense, either. Better to just pick a UTF-8 locale appropriate to the
user's language.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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