TriForceX
[FEATURE-REQ]: How realistic is it to make the initial console setup translatable?
💡 Feature request
How realistic, resource-consuming and/or time-consuming/difficult is it to make the initial console setup translatable? I mean those "first run" setup steps where the user is asked about console model, screen-orientation/position and if the main partition must be extended and stuff.
Motivation (behind your idea)
The questions asked at setup steps are important, the language of the questions is foreign and incomprehensible to non-English people, the timer is ticking insidiously at this time. Especially where there is a lot of such text, as in the step about increasing the size of the main partiton or when the license agreement is displayed.
The .psf (PC screen font) in use by console terminal is limited in that way it can store only 512 glyphs (or 256). Would have to switch PSF with setfont and find proper font for be it Cyrillic or latin-non English after lang change. Moreover how to make this translations accesible for contributors? I assume moving whole firstboot procedure to separate repo or using extern localization service (e.g. weblate?).
About the limited timer period, there is a reason for that (see firsboot diagram and loops in which system tries to predict handheld type).
