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Re: goals for next release



On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 19:54, Kenshi Muto wrote:
> At 27 Jan 04 21:18:30 GMT,
> Joey Hess wrote:
> >  - better i18n in the second stage
> > 
> > 	I don't know what the status is. Perhaps Kenshi Muto knows?
> > 	Probably mandatory for next release.
> 
> I believe Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Greek will be displayed correctly.
> 
> My TODO:
> - - test, hack, test, hack... :-) I'll do this weekend.
>   Has anyone cool CD image build script from d-i/base-config CVS? :-)
> - - UTF-8: I think to use jfbterm for this encoding rather than simple
>   console.
> - - validlocale seems a little wrong (#225870). I and Ishikawa will try
>   to fix this. JoeyH, if you can fix easily, please tell us before we
>   start to do it :-)
> - - FB check routine should be more brushed up. Debconf db on 1st stage
>   has whether user use FB or not, so it looks good to use this variable.
>   I need to check other arch (mainly PPC) also about FB.
> 
> QUESTION:
> - - Will be debconf style around langchooser changed? If so I need to
>   follow it. base-config simply uses 'debian-installer/locale' for LANG.
> 
> HELP:
> - - Russian: console-cyrillic is already installed by base-installer on
>   1st stage. But I don't know how to setup this.
>   - KOI8-U
> - - I don't know how to treat following encodings (some of these include
>   non-supported language by debian-installer).
> 
>   - CP1251
>   - CP1255
>   - EUC-TW (jfbterm?)
>   - GB18030 (jfbterm?)
>   - GBK (jfbterm?)
>   - ISO-8859-6
>   - ISO-8859-9
>   - ISO-8859-14
>   - KOI8-T
>   - TCVN5712-1
>   - TIS-620

Can't all encodings be converted to UTF-8 using iconv(1)? That would
certainly simplify things.

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