[OmniOS-discuss] Caiman issues with certain timezones

[Dan McDonald]

A repeating problem has been with the ISO/USB "Caiman" installer barfing out upon selecting a timezone in Europe, Asia, or Africa.  All of these have timezones that use non-ASCII characters in one of their zone names.

I've finally (and sorry for the delay) worked out a solution:  Have the installer run with LANG=en_US.UTF-8, so it can handle the characters.  The problem is, caiman's display doesn't cope with it very well, and draws letters where there used to be line/drawing characters.

So my quick question to you all:  for r151018 (and backporting), do you prefer a nicer-looking installer that craps out if you select Africa, Europe, or Asia?  Or do you prefer a sketchier-looking one that works for all timezones out of the box?  I'm cutting the last 017 bloody with this, so you can try it out yourself when it shows up.

Some people set their timezones in /etc/default/init AFTER installation, so I'm asking, instead of just making the decision.  I'm attaching a screenshot of the en_US.UTF-8 one.  Note the letter q where there should be a left-to-right bar:



Dan

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