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Re: The environment variable $LANGUAGE



> 2. People would say "then don't install in English, install in
> Chinese"!  But the problem is that d-i doesn't install a

I'd rather say that using an install in English for later use a
Chinese system is very likely to require manual intervention such as
the one you describe.

This is mor eor less expected behaviour.

> framebuffer-enabled terminal (like jfbterm used in 1st stage) for
> Chinese install.  So the user will get garbled characters in the 2nd
> stage of installation (the part running base-config), so most Chinese
> users choose to install in English instead.


*That* is not true. 2nd stage runs fine with CJK languages because base-config
is run under jfbterm. If it does not run fine, this is a bug.

However, the end system will display garbage *later*, if localized in
CJK languages (or Arabic, Hebrew...) because jfbterm cannot be run as
a login program. There's a discussion about this in localechooser bug
log and no real possible solution.



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