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Re: Definition of COUNTRY (Was: Resignation)



Quoting Mike Hommey (mh@glandium.org):
> Christian Perrier wrote:
> (...)
> >Finally, on this short screen, you can choose "Other" which will drop
> >you into the world "country" list (the iso-3166 list). Choosing a
> >country there will only set the country value, but NOT the locale
> >value because this will be an unsupported locale.
> 
> What is the meaning that the chosen "country" is supposed to have, then ?
> On one hand, it is a language variant, on the other hand it is a 
> "position" location ? That seems rather strange...

In the case you cite here, the chosen "country" is only used by
further packages which need a "location" such as the timezone
configuration step and (but not yet implemented) the mirror settings.





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