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Re: Requirements for a system with translated package descriptions...



On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Radovan Garabik wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:32:12PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote:
> >  some mandatory points:
> >   - The system must show the translated description on command outputs
> >     and on the display
> >   - The system must use the normal environment system from gettext to
> >     choose the displayed translation. ('LANG', 'LANGUAGE', 'LC_ALL'
> >     'LC_MESSAGES' and see the gettext source code) (Also the fallback
> >     languages)

> concerning fallback languages: system must be able to recode between
> different character encodings, if the fallback language(s) use other
> encoding than the main language. (of course, only if the encodings
> are compatible - transliteration would be fine, but is not that much
> necessary)

Isn't libiconv mature enough to provide recoding and transliteration ?

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