Re: reconfiguring locales in base-config?
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 07:50:23AM +0200, Oliver M . Bolzer wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:58:57AM -0400, Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote...
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:55:33AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Hm. In a new install, locales is going to be installed by debootstrap,
> > > which will bypass the questions about which locales to generate. I
> > > wonder if I should make base-config reconfigure locales, to give users a
> > > chance to configure this as part of an install? It seems this might be
> > > very important to certian non-English users.
>
> > Sounds like a very good idea...make it so :)
>
> To that matter, presenting the raw list of locales might confuse users
> who are not familiar with locale codes ("gosh this looks complicated,
> I'm not going to look at it"). Like in tasksel VS dselect, it how about
> making another mode with just languages and that will enable all locales
> of a specific language?
Or better yet, how about just presenting the names in /etc/locale.alias?
Give the names an initial caps and convert it to the specified alias for
generating, and all should be good.
Ben
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