Bug#185831: Bug#196774: Plans for fixing this bug ?

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
Subject: Bug#185831: Bug#196774: Plans for fixing this bug ?
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:41:51 +0200

> I would advise you to use the special "__Choices" entry.

Yes, I had been taught this once before from you or someone 
else in French translation team.

But I'm afraid now that translation of Choices itself
might be a problem because we use $RET value in postinst 
like;

      db_get tetex-bin/hyphen || true
      lang="$RET"
      for l in $lang; do
	case $l in
	french\[=patois\]) sed -e "s/%! french/french/" $LDAT | sed -e "s/%! =patois/=patois/" > $LDAT_$$; mv $LDAT_$$ $LDAT ;;

if "french" is translated to "francais" (I don't know the way
to write French letters ;), did the above shell script work?
that is $RET = french even if templates were translated as 
"francais"?

From: frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)
Subject: Bug#185831: Bug#196774: Plans for fixing this bug ?
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:25:03 +0200

> > You should put there either "Default"-->this would mean that you don't
> > consider that having different defaults for different languages is
> > needed.
> >
> > Otherwise, you may put "_Defaultchoice:". This special po-debconf
> > entry allow translators to use a default which is different for each
> > language.
> 
> It might be worth considering this, changing the default depending on
> the language. However, note that some (many? at least me) people use
> locale C as root and there "home" locale only as users, but installing
> is done as users, of course.

I feel

Default: french[=patois], german[=austrian-alte_Rechtschreibung], ngerman[=naustrian-neue_Rechtschreibung]

and no translation is better than "_Defaultchoice:"

> Besides that, I would:
> 
> - suggest to give no default at all; people will usually be able to find
>   their own language

Frank, do you think this is the best (in short)? 

Regards,		    2003-8-27(Wed)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima