i18n boot-floppies (was Re: restart after the base install)
Michael Sobolev <mss@transas.com> writes:
> The current version of dbootstrap loads /etc/messages.trm. And it's
> this file that provide all messages. LANG variable (nor
> LC_MESSAGES) is not used as there is no function that could be used:
> gettext calls are just replaced with references into an array with
> translated strings!
> So, to make the boot floppies use localized messages, it's necessary to put a
> localized version of /etc/messages.trm.
Yes -- now this assumes that we have one root disk for each language,
right?
Your system was supposed to get rid of that, but I'm not sure it's
practical yet, since I haven't seen the root.bin size impact yet.
Remember that on architectures w/o library reduction, every byte is
critical.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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