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Re: Requirements for a system with translated package descriptions...



On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:32:12PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote:

...

>  some mandatory points:
>   - The system must show the translated description on command outputs
>     and on the display
>   - The system must use the normal environment system from gettext to
>     choose the displayed translation. ('LANG', 'LANGUAGE', 'LC_ALL'
>     'LC_MESSAGES' and see the gettext source code) (Also the fallback
>     languages)

concerning fallback languages: system must be able to
recode between different character encodings, if the fallback
language(s) use other encoding than the main language.
(of course, only if the encodings are compatible - transliteration
would be fine, but is not that much necessary)

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