On Tuesday 26 September 2006 08:44, Joey Hess wrote: > tasksel uses standard gettext for translations of the tasks menu, since > that menu is generated on the fly and so cannot be translated using > debconf. I'm still confused why the rest of tasksel _is_ translated correctly and only the tasks are affected. > So this problem actually affects anything else that d-i might happen to > run in the chroot that uses gettext. Which suggests to me that this > LANGUAGE setting is bogus and wrong at root. The problem this solves is the following. The S/390 images do not include localechooser and thus language selection is missing. This results in the country selection in mirror-chooser showing the country codes instead of country names. Setting LANGUAGE to "en" solves this. In general, IMO the installer should ensure a good default language setting (C/English), even if localechooser is not run. Yesterday I tried a different implementation: setting debconf/language=en in debian-installer-startup.d instead of setting LANGUAGE. However, that did not result in country names being displayed for S/390. Suggestions for alternative solutions are very welcome.
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