Re: Translations for new boot floppies
Enrique Zanardi writes:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 01:45:52PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
>
> > As the maintainer of kbd, I'm wondering which fonts you plan to
> > include on the floppies.
>
> For this version, we are still using the same fonts than in Debian 1.3 :
>
> disks-i386:
>
> de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.gz dvorak.map.gz es.map.gz
[...]
Sorry, these are the keymaps, not the fonts. I don't really think it's
a good idea to move some of the keymaps out, because, as you said, it
will need to add some instructions.
But the fonts could be automagically selected with the language (eg,
if there's no automation, one dir per language, containing the
messages file + a link to the font)
> (Total: 30KB)
>
> disks-m68k:
> (Total: 23KB)
The fonts can take more place than that, so it would be a good thing
to remove some of them, if not already done.
> As we are talking about kbd, may you make kbdconfig execute "zcat"
> instead of "gzip -c -d"? We have a "zcat" utility in the boot floppies,
> but no "gzip", and "ln -si zcat gzip" will confuse many users.
Problem: it is loadkeys itself calling gzip, not kbdconfig. But I can
replace calls to "loadkeys file" by "zcat -f file | loadkeys", but
your own zcat will have to support "-f" in order for the script to be
portable enough (ie. loading uncompressed keymaps too).
If it doesn't, I can still provide the "zcat file | loadkeys"
behaviour by adding a command-line switch.
Please tell me what is to be done. kbd is the next package I'll work
on, if no critical bugs appear in e2fsprogs or tkman.
BTW, the next-to-next package will probably a debian package for
console-tools, my over-patched version of kbd, which features font
compression, less duplicated code, etc. Maybe it will be a good
candidate as a replacement for kbd, at least for now in the install
floppies.
However, the last one I released (1997.12.16 in
sunsite:system/keyboards/) seem to have a bug in compressed-file
handling. The next one will have this fixed, but I have some other
(minor) problems that may (or may not ;) delay release.
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