Re: debian-installer - some oddities

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:00:56PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> hi folks

Hi Bastian,

> i do some work on the s390 port and see the following not realy bugs:
> - cdebconf uses \r for the progress bar which the terminal don't
>   support, it looks like this:
> |    Y  1.5%" Y  1.5%" Unpacking autopartkit
> |               Y  3.0%" Y  3.0%" Retrieving base-installer

I will discuss this issue in your other message about support for
backup.

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> - cdebconf should not use translated strings on dumb terminals.

Can you tell why?  I know nothing about dumb terminals, googled a bit
but did not find anything interesting.
This is not d-i related, but #232296 discusses whether English text
could contain UTF-8 encoded non-ASCII characters.  From your message,
it seems that this is a bad idea, but could you please elaborate?

Denis