On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 03:43:12PM +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Radovan Garabik wrote:
>
> > 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)
I miss thie point. And yes this point is a mandatory point.
I will add this on this list.
> Isn't libiconv mature enough to provide recoding and transliteration ?
Please don't say 'use libXXX'. The dpkg developer will choose the libs.
Gruss
Grisu
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