I will very appreciate this change. Jiri
-- Jiri Navratil, http://www.navratil.cz, +31 618 716 819 Orange NL 19. kvě (Čtvrtek) v 07:14:47 CEST 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal(a): > Hello, > > the attached patch to the livecd buildscripts simplifies the process of > console configuration by guessing the screen font based on the user's > locale. I have not implemented automatic selection of keymap because > even for the same locale, different people may have different > preferences (but I have a table for frequently used keymaps in most > locales). > > Now I can boot linux from the Live CD as follows: > > linux LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R KEYMAP=ru-ms TZ=Asia/Yekaterinburg UTC=1 > > and automatically get proper regional settings upon login. (Well, I also > have to edit xorg.conf). In some locales, the result is different from > the contents of template /etc/sysconfig/console file but still correct > AFAIK. > > I have not done the SVN commit yet. Is this feature wanted by anyone else? > > The following locales are removed from the list of supported ones: > > * UTF-8 based locales. Reason: many applications (and most notably the > ncurses library) are compiled with known wrong options. > > Some time ago I heard in #lfs-support: "but it just works for me in > en_GB.UTF-8!". This Live CD doesn't work correctly in ru_RU.UTF-8. The > "it works" statement can be heard only from people that speak only > English and really use pure ASCII. In en_GB.UTF-8, bugs are in fact the > same, but invisible to such people. > > * Locales based on other multibyte character sets, i.e. when the "locale > ctype-mb-cur-max" command prints a number greater than 1. Same reason as > above, plus there are no userspace programs and fonts on the CD > necessary to type and see text in such locales. > > * Arabic and Hebrew locales. Reason: right-to-left writing direction, no > working text editor, no good terminal. > > * Locales that use 8-bit character sets not supported by the "kbd" > package, e.g. ISO-8859-14 or GEORGIAN-PS. > > * Turkish locale. Reason: in this locale, "I" is not the uppercase > version of "i" (the correct uppercase version is "??"). Some programs may > break because of this. If I am a pessimist here and the CD is in fact > usable enough in the tr_TR.ISO-8859-9 locale, please correct me. > > -- > Alexander E. Patrakov > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
