Bug#489218: win32-loader: [INTL:vi] Vietnamese program translation update
clone 489218 -1
retitle -1 support for utf-16
reassign -1 nsis
thanks
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:11:46PM +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> >
> >Is this a fork/branch of NSIS? In that case, I'm afraid we can't
> >use your
> >translation untill Unicode support is merged (either in upstream or
> >in the
> >Debian package).
>
> NSIS Unicode is actually a separate project. The main NSIS project
> refuses to support UTF-8, despite years of increasingly desperate
> requests from the languages that require it (like Vietnamese). In the
> end, this guy had to start his own project to solve the problem. He
> always uses the latest NSIS code, but adds his modifications so it
> supports UTF-8.
>From the link in their site to forum discussion about merging this in NSIS,
it doesn't seem like they refuse to, but simply have concerns about minor
things like which charset to use for examples, etc. Are you sure this isn't
going to be merged in the near future?
A problem with switching completely to UTF-16 is that this seems to be
incompatible with Windows 98 (believe it or not, there are many users of
this program who run it under Windows 98). Is it possible to keep it
multi-charset just like now, but using UTF-16 only for the languages that
need it?
> OpenOffice.org has just started using NSIS Unicode, to support all the
> languages otherwise left out in the cold, and Mozilla also use it. I
> should talk to Christian Perrier about this, because it's really an
> i18n matter. But I thought you should also be concerned, since you're
> packaging Windows installer software.
It isn't really up to me. If the functionality is in Debian, and is usable
(see my concern above), I have no problem with using it. You should also
talk with Paul Wise (the maintainer of nsis in Debian); I'm cloning this
bug for you.
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