> This way, if the language is russian, the prompt would be: > "Start nuclear war? (Да/Нет) (Y/N)" > > where both "д" and "y" would confirm, and both "н" and "n" would deny. > > > I'm not sure if there are any languages where the positive answer starts > with a latin "n" or the negative with "y", but in that case, the language > uses the latin script, and thus probably can be typed even without correct > keyboard settings (assuming no umlauts or other diacritics on the other > answer). > > Using a romanized version doesn't sound like the best solution to me, since > that looks ugly and is counterproductive in most cases where the input is > already working.
IMO the best solution here is to use libc `nl_langinfo(YESEXPR)' or `rpmatch' similar to what apt-get does with `YnPrompt'. The expressions match against the first character of a string, e.g.: LOCALE YESEXPR NOEXPR de_DE.UTF-8 ^[jJyY].* ^[nN].* en_EN.UTF-8 ^[yY] ^[nN] es_ES.UTF-8 ^[sSyY].* ^[nN].* ru_RU.UTF-8 ^[ДдYy].* ^[НнNn].* Which is suitable for anything except the danger prompts: "Yes, I am aware this is a very bad idea" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
