elijah wright wrote:
- cdebconf should not use translated strings on dumb terminals.
Can you tell why? I know nothing about dumb terminals, googled a bit
but did not find anything interesting. This is not d-i related, but
#232296 discusses whether English text could contain UTF-8
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:02:49AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
AFAIH vt102 supports latin1, so most vt100-comaptible terminals
should be suitable for western european languages.
vt100 terminals are not dumb.
Bastian
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On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:49:04PM -0600, elijah wright wrote:
dumb terminals, at least in the US, are ascii-only. no clue whether
anyone ever manufactured terminals that did non-roman-alphabetic or
non-ascii characters. i would think maybe, but i don't know for sure.
At least not this sort
hi folks
i do some work on the s390 port and see the following not realy bugs:
- cdebconf uses \r for the progress bar which the terminal don't
support, it looks like this:
|Y 1.5% Y 1.5% Unpacking autopartkit
| Y 3.0% Y 3.0% Retrieving base-installer
|
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:00:56PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
hi folks
Hi Bastian,
i do some work on the s390 port and see the following not realy bugs:
- cdebconf uses \r for the progress bar which the terminal don't
support, it looks like this:
|Y 1.5% Y 1.5% Unpacking
- cdebconf should not use translated strings on dumb terminals.
Can you tell why? I know nothing about dumb terminals, googled a bit
but did not find anything interesting. This is not d-i related, but
#232296 discusses whether English text could contain UTF-8 encoded
non-ASCII characters.
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