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Re: i18n of main-menu and Packages



At 23 Oct 03 13:36:47 GMT,
amck@utvinternet.com wrote:
> >And, dynamic font loading needs restart bterm (and it may cause a
> >problem), doesn't it?
> 
> I'm testing this out now. More details tomorrow.

I want to hear good news :-)
This is a key point.

> >My poor idea is:
> >- We provide build/foo-<language code>.utf (such as foo-ja.utf,
> >foo-kr.utf, etc...) and apply additional (dynamic loaded) messages
> >into these files.
> >- Then merge them into all-*.utf by build/Makefile.
> 
> The problem is, we do not know all of the strings that may be
> used, and hence the characters needed.

That's right.

> At the moment I think we do not use UTF-8 or i18n in the
> floppy installs. On the CDROM and net installs, we could
> perhaps use the low-memory loopback tricks described earlier
> to minimise memory issues; in fact I'd recommend them.

Second.
-- 
Kenshi Muto
kmuto@debian.org



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