On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 06:55:48PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > However, I have one concern. Debconf is one of softwares which is > used in early stage of Debian installation. Thus, Debconf should > not depend on many/large packages/data. > Encoding conversion is a relatively heavy process. I mean, collection > of conversion tables is large. > I don't know if iconv (I can use "libtext-iconv-perl" package) or > encoding conversion in gettext work well without "locales" package > or not. Do you have any idea? iconv works fine in the absence of locale data; iconv is merely a tool for converting text between two encodings. However, iconv DOES need locale definitions to know what the user's preferred encoding is. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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