Re: other fallback languages Re: Deactivated languages

[Matthias Julius <lists@julius-net.net>]

Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> writes:

> Quoting Matthias Julius (lists@julius-net.net):
>> Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> writes:
>> 
>> > However, experience has shown that these fallback languages are
>> > usefule for very few languages and, sometimes, things that sound like
>> > a good idea initially turn out to be confusing to users (e.g. using
>> > Russian as fallback for Ukrainian, or things like this...).
>> >
>> > And, guess what, even this can lead to political-style problems...
>> 
>> This could be avoided if the user gets to decide: "Not all messages
>> have been translated into the language you have chosen. Please select
>> a fallback language."
>
> Theoretically, yes, but how would the installer "know" in advance that
> debconf templates are not translated competely? D-I is modular by
> nature so, at the moment localechooser is run, there is no possible
> way to know whether udebs are fully translated, or not, for the chosen
> language.

This information would need to be stored somewhere in a file created
by the build process.

Matthias