On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 07:56:52PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >(Not posting to the bug, because this is not GeoIP.) > >Has anyone looked into whether the EFI PlatformLang variable is at all >useful? > >Windows 7 does not appear to use it, though I think Windows 8 may do. >If Windows uses it, it's probably going to be a fairly good indicator of >the locale the computer was sold in, which would be a good starting >point.
Curious - have you ever seen this set to anything useful? Maybe I'm just too cynical, but I'd expect to see it set to one of <blank>, en_US, or zh_TW regardless of where a machine ends up being sold... :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
