Re: i18n of tasksel (and cdebconf)
[Tomohiro KUBOTA]
> BTW, I tested (on UTF-8 terminal):
> LANGUAGE=ja LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 dpkg-reconfigure -ftext ssh
> LANGUAGE=ja LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 dpkg-reconfigure -fncurses ssh
> LANGUAGE=ja LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 dpkg-reconfigure -fslang ssh
> LANGUAGE=ja LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 dpkg-reconfigure -fnewt ssh
> but all of them displayed "text" frontend (I guess).
Hm, perhaps the cdebconf version of dpkg-reconfigure is unable to
handle the -f option? I have never tried this myself.
> How about the Stage 2 ? Any internationalized terminals? Is the
> selected language in the Stage 1 also living in the Stage 2 ? Is
> tasksel used?
The selected language is passed into stage 2, and the required locale
should be generated, and the needed terminal emulator / configuration
should be enabled by /usr/bin/termwrap. I've tested it for a few
languages using UTF-8 and ISO-8859-{1,15}, but not for Japanese.
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