Re: Re: Wrong Belgian locale

On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 11:32:02PM +0200, baldyeti wrote:
> >
> > Which one would be the CORRECT locale to set LANG= to, for belgian?
> >
> > The code in knoppix/autoconfig came from a belgian Linux user
> > originally, so I just assumed it was correct, at least at that time.
> >
> > Regards
> > -Klaus Knopper
> 
> Well, there's no such thing as "one" belgian language, but belo-russian
> definitely is not quite satisfying ;-)
> Other than that, and since we'd better not choose between Dutch and
> French (not to mention German), English seems like the best choice for
> a product like knoppix, hence my suggestion to stick to "C".
> "be" is still useful as a cheatcode, though, in order to select the
> right keyboard layout. BTW, for the console, "be2-latin1" is slightly
> more complete than "be-latin1".
> 
> Speaking of the "lang" keyword, the "cheatcode.txt" file does not
> actually document all supported countries. The latest knoppix-autoconfig
> script has support for be,bg,ch,cz/cz,dk,fi,ja,sl and uk besides those
> mentioned in the help.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> --bald

Well, just WHAT do you want the default to be, out of all the available
possibilities for $LANG, if the user choses lang=be?

Regards
-Klaus Knopper