Bill Allombert wrote: > This has some consequences: > 1) Debian menu is translated, since update-menus was ran under > proper locales! This is very nice ! Thanks to everybody involved! Is this _really_ a good thing? > 2) The debconf database might contain some non-7bit value > (especially since some default value are translated by non-7bit string) > Unfortunately, if root rerun debconf, it will use C-locale and it > seems debconf under C locale does not handle well non-7bit string in > the database. I had problems with dexconf "Enter an indentifier for > your video card" which default in french to "carte vidéo générique". Those strings sound like descriptions, which should not be displayed in localised form if the locale is C. Details? > a) should the root user be configured with proper locale by d-i ? d-i appends a LANG setting to /etc/environment, is there some reason why this doesn't affect root? > b) could some applications get the 'system language' somewhere > and use it when LANG=C ? This sounds very broken to me. When I set LANG=C, I want C. Period. -- see shy jo
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