Breezy installer resolution

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 07:54:40PM -0400, Alvin Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 15:01 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > The installer, as you may have noticed, doesn't display any pretty pictures.
> > It uses the graphics mode to display non-Latin characters, so that it can
> > interact with the user in their native language.
> 
> oh, good point. would it be possible to only enable the graphics mode if
> the user selects a language that requires it? i imagine the initial
> language selection screen always starts in english, anyway.

No, the first screen displays the names of all of the languages, written in
the named language, on a menu.

> that way the maximum number of people possible can have a smooth
> installation. the only group you would have to worry about are non-english
> speakers who have one of those pesky (but fairly common) laptops.

We need to deal with these problems anyway, and hiding the problem for
English speakers makes it harder to identify hardware components which have
this problem.

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 - mdz