On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 11:51:43PM +0200, Martin Sj�gren wrote: [...] > France != French. Isn't French spoken in quite a lot more countries than > France? For example Canada...
Isn't English spoken in quite a lot more countries than United States? ;) Why is United States a good default value whereas France is not for French speaking people? > Also, a pretty standard policy when translating things is to try not to > change the "meaning" of the text. Huh? I only want to change the default value, how does it have an impact on the meaning of the text? > If I'm in the USA while installing Debian, I might want to use > Swedish during the installation, though I definitely don't want > to use ftp.se.d.o. Yes, I can change back the default, Exactly. > but isn't the "Usually, ftp.<your country code>.debian.org is a > good choice." enough? Then why is a default value provided? Seriously my feeling is that users are getting bored when they choose a language and provided default values do not take this information into accout (when choosing keyboard layout, mirrors, default system language, etc.). Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
