Quoting Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Here is another option:
>
> First question: select a country.
>
> Second question: select a language. For most countries there is a
> good choice of default language and the priority of the question can
> be lowered.
Unfortunately, this has a problem-->the first question, about country
will be in english. Its implications are not trivial, thus I think it
should be translated...
And, unfortunately, several countries will raise problems with this
scheme. And not only obscure countries, but some current d-i
contributors countries, mostly Belgium and Switzerland (or Spain).
If one chooses Belgium, should French or Dutch be chosen as default
language? I can assure you that either one is chosen, then you'll get
the "other side" very angry. Ask Bart Cornelis about dutch/french
struggles in Belgium.
Swiss people are maybe more "policed" (a nice "id�e re�ue" for sure)
but I'm pretty sure people from Lausanne wouldn't like to get German
as default language and be forced to lower debconf priority for
getting French back.
> The language list can contain all languages (not just the langueges
> for which there is a locale in SUPPORTED.) If someone chooses
> Bulgaria but Turkish language (there is no locale tr_BG) then the
> environment variables should be set as follows:
>
> LANG=bg_BG (the default for Bulgaria)
> LANGUAGES=tr
The idea Denis developed in this thread would give this for Bulgarian
or Turkish in Bulgaria:
1) Language question
bg_BG Choose this.....bulgarian (Bulgaria)
bg Choose this.....bulgarian (Other countries)
.../...
tr_TR Choose this.....turkish (Turkey)
tr Choose this.....turkish (Other countries)
(in bulgarian or turkish of course)
If bg_BG is chosen, go ahead....
If tr_TR is chosen, go ahead...
If tr alone is chosen:
2) Country question - short list
(assume that tr_BG is a valid locale, for the example)
BG Bulgaria
TR Turkey
... (other countries with valid tr_XX locale)
Others
If TR is chosen there....locale is tr_TR
If BG is chosen there....locale is tr_BG
If the user wants to pick another country because (s)he is a native
turkish speaker in, say, Greenland, then we bring a *third* question
with *all* countries.
3) Country question - long list
In step 2, the user is warned that choosing "Others" may have
undesired effect as the locale combination is currently not supported
in Debian.
Step 3 won't be reached very often (indeed it will be reached for
turkish speakers in Bulgaria)...and most often, one step only will be
needed.
About LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_ALL and all this stuff, I leave the answer to
others as I must admit that some subtleties there are away from my
understanding...:-)
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