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Re: Translations for new boot floppies



On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 11:31:53AM +0200, fpolacco@icenet.fi wrote:
> > our group is really impatient for the new boot floppies which, we've
> > heard, will use gettext to be internationalized.
> > I know you're hardly working on them, and we would like to know if there
> > are some .po files that we could start translating, even partial ones.
> 
> Not yet. First we have to finish the non-internationalized version, as we
> are already out of schedule for Debian 2.0. Then internationalizing it
> will be very easy.

I like to contribute and/or test the standard version of boot
floppies. How and what I can do?


> There's a little problem I've been thinking about, but don't have an easy
> solution yet. The root disk is already stuffed almost to capacity, so we
> won't be able to put a few message catalogs for the different languages
> we will support.
> 
> One solution is building a root floppy for each language, but that would
> be a waste of space in the CDs and mirror sites. 

I use only one xserver, but in CDROM and mirror there are xservers for
all video card. Some boot floppies for specific language don't make
waste of space.


ciao
				Michele

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