-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 reassign 253404 base-config severity 253404 normal thanks
At Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:39:11 +0800, Tetralet wrote: > We find that the locale was seted to: (if Debian was installed in Traditional > Chinese) > > LANG=zh_TW (snip) > > User's console may not be able to show Traditional Chinese characters correctly, > When some command output Traditional Chinese characters, The outputs will become > illegible codes. > It may confuse users. I know people who use CJK or some other languages need special terminal for their languages, and understand what you say. But, I prefer setting LANG for their own language as default (/etc/environment) rather than LANG=C. It is really painful to force users to set LANG by themselves. Generally, I believe users will use X Window System or remote shell, won't use raw console. If I'm asked 'which do you prefer', I choose local LANG although raw console has a problem. It would be good that users can continue to use i18n console terminal such as jfbterm or bterm after 2nd stage... but unfortunately we can't launch X Window System as user level from its terminal by security reason. One of my simple idea is to define LANG=C for only 'root' shell configuration, and /etc/environment is preserved as local LANG. Message localization is not so important for administration, and sometimes message localization on root account causes a problem such as this report. Thanks, - -- Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iEYEARECAAYFAkDHAdYACgkQQKW+7XLQPLFQ3wCfRu3ArWq3j3T0oASi/3LEMpuq JF4AniRVboHjM5WXXxh1CB6BAcdpbLNO =gZZO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]