Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit:

> The trouble with using bterm is that it requires everything to be in
> UTF-8.  At the moment at least, this isn't typically the case for latin
> languages.  In the closed world of dbootstrap it's no problem to recode
> all the strings while building the boot-floppies, but at the time
> base-config runs the strings will be coming directly from random
> packages.  I had the impression that even with Japanese most strings
> were still coded in EUC-JP rather than Unicode, but maybe I was wrong
> about that.

That is the case.
That's why we need kon2, instead of bterm.
I think bterm was only capable of UTF-8.

Not all programs work with UTF-8 in Japanese...

regards,
        junichi

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