Re: more language support
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 12:36:56PM -0500, Shaleh wrote:
>
> On 06-Feb-99 Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> >
> > we need much more language support for potato! This begins at the
> > boot-floppies
> > and ends by the debian/control.<language> for each package.
> >
> > The debian boot-floppies have now generic language support, but it isn't
> > currently
> > possible to select the language from start-up. I prefer this method and not
> > the one
> > to create boot-floppies for every language. If this doesn't fit on the
> > floppies this
> > should then go to the cdrom.
>
> Space is too limited on the floppy I am sure.
>
I was rather surprised when I found out that separate disks were needed for
each language. Are we really that full? The two things needed that take up
room are having the different translations of the text and the locale info.
I doubt that i18n would add even 1MB to the boot floppies.
Jay Treacy
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