Re: Bug#288269: localechooser: Can cause problems in floppy/netboot installations for unstable
Quoting Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org):
> I suspect that the reason is to avoid having the s390 console prompt you
> for what language to use, and then, horrors, try to use something other
> than English. I doubt Japanese or even French displays well on this most
> limited of consoles.
Even French ? Aaargh..:-)
Seriously speaking, I indeed was considering some kind of 3 levels for
each language in localechooser:
-level 1 : language may be displayed on any ASCII terminal. This
restricts the list to English and very few other languages (ATM, I'm
aware of Indonesian and Malagasy)
-level 2 : language is OK for any ISO-Latin1 capable terminal such as
several serial consoles. This includes most so-called Western European
languages
-level 3 : language needs a working framebuffer for being displayable
-(level 4 : language needs a graphical environment...this would be the
case for Hindi and all Indic languages)
Thus, the possible level would be set at the very beginning of the
installation, depending on the environment...and then localechooser
would adapt the list of available languages.
Anyway, assuming that localechooser replaces lang+country choosers
some day, running it even in limited environments such as pure ASCII
terminals should be done, for instance for allowing the user to choose
a country, or even a locale even if the language is only English.
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