(looks like this is the day of important announcements..:-)) Joey Hess activated, last night, the replacement of languagechooser and countrychooser packages in Debian Installer daily builds.
They are now replaced by the localechooser package I wrote by merging both packages together. This package has been later enhanced by Frans Pop (cleaning out my messy shell script writing) and Colin Watson (for Ubuntu purposes). I don't know when daily builds with it will be available (maybe they are already)...but if they're not, it should happen soon. The main features are: -better integration of language and country choices. Now allows to come back at the language selection step and change it without breaking the rest of D-I -locale selection screen: at medium priority, the users are prompted about their preferred locale, after choosing language and country. For instance, this allows French users to switch from the default fr_FR to fr_FR.UTF-8 and enter the modern world -early support for multiple locale selection�: I'm not sure this is already implemented..:-). This should make multi-language installations possible at some time -easier preseeding: the language/country/locale settings can be easily preseeded by using "preseed/locale". Example: preseed/locale=fr_FR.UTF-8 will skip all language/country/locale screens, preseed/locale=fr will skip the language screen and so on... No more ugly preseeding of language/country. -better output on non framebuffer environments: languages which cannot be displayed when the framebuffer is not working (disabled, serial installs...) will not appear on the language selection screen -a C locale is available which skips all localization thingies forpeople who don't want localized servers (bleh) The main bugs are: -a lot of nasty, unknown bugs as usual with new stuff -a messy shell script writing called "bubulle inimitable style" (will be polished by Frans during Debconf) New languages (prospective) have not been added yet. Remind that we said we would add them in July, not earlier. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
