Re: debian-installer - some oddities

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

elijah wright wrote:
> 
> > > - 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?
> 
> dumb terminals, at least in the US, are ascii-only.  no clue whether
> anyone ever manufactured terminals that did non-roman-alphabetic or
> non-ascii characters.  i would think "maybe", but i don't know for sure.

AFAIH vt102 supports latin1, so most "vt100-comaptible" terminals
should be suitable for western european languages.


Thiemo