Re: Bug#276067: Reassigning this bug report
Just a comment since I was the one that originally submitted this 'bug' or
item. It seems that my original comment has been slightly misunderstood and
two topics a bit mixed together.
I submitted the comment after using one of the rcs for the Sarge installer
(which for the most was just great using, thanks to the developers)
Even though I am living in Norway and am using Norwegian as my main language I
am never setting the system up using a Norwegian locale when installing. The
main reason being google, if any error message or problem creeps up, it is a
bit more fruitful to search for the English (for a suitable definintion of
English) error messages or comments from the installer than to look for the
Norwegian. I would guess that most other Norwegian that are installing Debian
are doing the same thing. So, when selecting language, I selected UK English.
On the next screen, I was presented with a list of 'reasonable countries' due
to my selection of language, iirc, Denmark was among them, therefore I send a
comment that you could maybe add Norway as well (I do not think there are any
en_DK locale either...) But, of cource, then you should add most countries to
the list preseted after selecting any version of English as the installation
language.
The other issue that I mentioned was that after selecting Norway, I did not
get a Norwegian keyboard layout as the default. As (some of) you might know,
we have three extra letters (æøå), and also a few other symbols are placed
otherwhere on the kb than the 'standard', so things get seriously messed up
with a wrong keyboard layout selected. Also collation order needs to be set
correctly, and should (probably) be a per country default (although there are
some countries where this will not be the case, I would guess that there are
more countries where there is a reasonable default than where it will cause
problems to have a default.
So to sum up, what _I_ want (and I guess that most Norwegians (and for that
case Danies, Swedes and others people from 'small' languages), computer
literate enough to start installing debian would agree with this) to achieve
in as few keypresses as possible is to have
- Communication with the operating system in English
- Other things set up to match the typical locale settings, e.g. keyboard
layout, sorting, time zone (again multiple choises for some countries) etc.
But of cource, since Debian is to a very high degree an 'install once run
forever' os, a few extra key presses during the installation is a really
minor issue.
Morten
--
Drøbak, Norway
http://sickel.net
Reply to: