Has anyone thought much about how Hurd's equivalent of boot-floppies will work? Presumably one could copy the Debian GNU/Linux package quite closely, using the libraries slang and newt to provide windows and menus on a VSA screen in text mode. However, when I was trying to localise that package I ran into some difficulties, mainly the problem of using a different character set. So, if, by any chance, someone has already thought about a different way of doing it, I would be interested to hear about it.
(One should probably accept, right from the start, that the system must be able to work in Chinese, Japanese, Burmese, ... and therefore kludgy 8-bit work-arounds will just cause extra work in the long run ...) Edmund
