Re: How to handle non-ascii characters in templates?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 06:25:36PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Denis Barbier]
> >>> Maybe we could also add an en.po file to provide ISO-8859-1
> >> That is one option, but I believe it is better to specify that
> >> templates should use UTF-8. I'm not sure how much must change to make
> >> it happen.
> >
> > Gettext only accepts ASCII encoded msgids.
>
> OK. Then I guess an en.po is a better idea. But I am not sure
> cdebconf will use 'en' as a fallback language. I believe it should.
It would indeed work for d-i.
But if cdebconf is used as a debconf replacement, only ASCII characters
should be displayed when locale is POSIX. A better solution is to let
languagechooser always append 'en' to LANGUAGE.
Denis
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