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Bug#520506: Bad title on "Choose a country, territory or area" screen



reassign 520506 localechooser
thanks

Quoting Martin Sarfy (sarfy@ics.muni.cz):
> 
> Package: debian-installer
> Version: lenny-5.0
> 
> After selecting lanugage, on another page there is a "Based on your language,
> you are probably located in one of these countries or regions" screen.
> 
> Problem is that in the title there is still a confusing "Choose language" title.
> 
> I suggest that the title should be changed to "Choose a country" string.


That cannot be done as both actions are done within the same package
(localechooser) and, this for very good reasons (things are closely
related, of course).

...and the title you see is the menu entry choice, which is unique. A
debconf screen title cannot be changed during the configuration of a package.

Moreover, that very specific item needs to be very short because, when
it is translated, we put both the localized name *and* the english
version:

Vybrat jazyk/Choose language for Czech, for instance

and *that* is limited to about 65 characters.....


So, to fit what you ask, we should use something like 
"Choose language and country" which is fairly long and could lead to
problems for translators to make everything fit in the allowed space.

(moreover, that would still be inaccurate because the same package
*also* allows choosing the locale)

Fairly tricky, indeed and I don't think there is really a good
solution to all this.


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