also sprach Frans Pop [2009.10.29.1147 +]:
> But maybe it's time to drop support for non-UTF-8 locales altogether?
+1, but there are people who will not like it. I think Peter
Palfrader is just one of those who (pretend to) not want/need
Unicode.
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On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> > A possible solution could be to invert the two expert questions: first
> > ask which extra locales to install and then offer to select a default
> > from the selected locales.
>
> That's actually quite
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > No, I can *add* the en_GB locale later. I cannot chose it as system
> > > default, and I tried expert mode.
> >
> > Sorry, you are correct. Reopening.
>
> A possible solution could be to invert the t
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> That's actually quite simple to implement and even simplifies the code
> quite a bit.
>
> Martin, Christian: please give this image a try.
> http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/madduck/
Eh, sorry. This is broken. Please ignore for now.
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martin f krafft a écrit :
> also sprach Aurelien Jarno [2009.10.29.0920 +0100]:
>> I fully agree with that. The locale system on UNIX is well designed, so
>> you can select different value for the various locale categories.
>>
>> In your case the following settings will probably match your use cas
On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:
> - write an en_CH locale and convince glibc maintainers to include it
> in locales
That is very much the least preferred solution, and, even if it were
accepted in libc, I would be in favor of excluding it (at least from the
shortlist for
also sprach Frans Pop [2009.10.29.1015 +0100]:
> A possible solution could be to invert the two expert questions: first ask
> which extra locales to install and then offer to select a default from the
> selected locales.
This is precisely what locales' postinst will do.
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also sprach Aurelien Jarno [2009.10.29.0920 +0100]:
> I fully agree with that. The locale system on UNIX is well designed, so
> you can select different value for the various locale categories.
>
> In your case the following settings will probably match your use case:
>
> LC_CTYPE="de_CH.UTF-8"
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> > No, I can *add* the en_GB locale later. I cannot chose it as system
> > default, and I tried expert mode.
>
> Sorry, you are correct. Reopening.
A possible solution could be to invert the two expert questions: first ask
which extra locales to inst
Christian Perrier a écrit :
> Quoting martin f krafft (madd...@debian.org):
>> also sprach Christian Perrier [2009.10.28.0726 +0100]:
>>> - write an en_CH locale and convince glibc maintainers to include it
>>> in locales
>> You should know me better, Christian! #552561 ;)
>
> I'm not sure I woul
reopen 552560
thanks
On Wednesday 28 October 2009, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Frans Pop [2009.10.27.2305 +0100]:
> > You can choose en_GB if you install in expert mode (or with
> > priority=medium). I don't think we want to set defaults for unofficial
> > languages. The number of possib
Quoting martin f krafft (madd...@debian.org):
> also sprach Christian Perrier [2009.10.28.0726 +0100]:
> > - write an en_CH locale and convince glibc maintainers to include it
> > in locales
>
> You should know me better, Christian! #552561 ;)
I'm not sure I would support it strongly as it would
also sprach Frans Pop [2009.10.27.2305 +0100]:
> You can choose en_GB if you install in expert mode (or with
> priority=medium). I don't think we want to set defaults for unofficial
> languages. The number of possible combinations would be insane, and its
> also more a matter of personal prefer
reassign 552560 localechooser
retitle 552560 Should off all possible locales when language_country does not
fit an existing locale
thanks
Quoting martin f krafft (madd...@debian.org):
> Package: debian-installer
> Version: 20091026-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Usertags: debianbook
>
> I chose Englis
also sprach Christian Perrier [2009.10.28.0726 +0100]:
> - write an en_CH locale and convince glibc maintainers to include it
> in locales
You should know me better, Christian! #552561 ;)
Thanks for your other replies. It all makes sense, of course. Yes,
I installed as expert. Yes, I think we ca
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20091026-1
Severity: wishlist
Usertags: debianbook
I chose English/Switzerland in the language & country selection
dialogs, and d-i then offered only the en_US locales. Arguably,
there should be en_CH, given the international orientation of
Switzerland, but while
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