Re: more language support
Vincent Renardias <vincent@ldsol.com> writes:
> > But the Red Hat installation floppies do that. 14 languages are
> > supported in 5.2, without different disks for different languages.
>
> I certainly don't want to start a "RH vs. Debian" thread, but I've
> recently done some work on the RH installation floppies, and the support
> for French provided in their floppies is *very* incomplete (~ 40% of the
> messages are translated, and many screens display a mixture of English &
> French if you selected French in the 1st screen). They use gettext for
> their translation work. Gettext's .mo files can be easily shrunk to 25% of
> their original size with 'gzip -9'. (But, yes, the space on the boot
> floppy still remains limited)
Yes, the space is limited.. But we can make the space with a little
effort. The size of translations would not be so big.
I also did some work on the RH floppies.. They have _many_ i18n bugs,
but I could easily fix the bugs found.
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Changwoo Ryu
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