Hello Debian-installer team, During the baseconfig part of the install, locales are set up, while root has C locale by default (but the user account has correct locales).
This has some consequences: 1) Debian menu is translated, since update-menus was ran under proper locales! This is very nice ! Thanks to everybody involved! 2) The debconf database might contain some non-7bit value (especially since some default value are translated by non-7bit string) Unfortunately, if root rerun debconf, it will use C-locale and it seems debconf under C locale does not handle well non-7bit string in the database. I had problems with dexconf "Enter an indentifier for your video card" which default in french to "carte vidéo générique". 3) If root rerun update-menus (by installing a package) under C locale, user will louse the translation :(. So: a) should the root user be configured with proper locale by d-i ? b) could some applications get the 'system language' somewhere and use it when LANG=C ? (before you ask, menu support per user translation when non-root users rerun update-menus for themselves under their own locales) Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
