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Re: New package (win32-loader) added to "level 2" of Debian Installer and related packages translations



Robert, questions for you at the end of this mail.

> OK, I've read the doc., and I've grabbed the POT file from HTTP. I've been 
> trying to check the package out via SVN, using my Alioth username, but the 
> connection keeps timing out. Does that mean (in an indirect way) that I 
> don't have write access, and should use anonymous access?

You definitely have write access as you have write access to the whole
D-I repository.

If the conneciton is timing out, this is probably something else.

> Is this correct? I don't know if NSIS supports Vietnamese, since I don't 
> use Windows, and wouldn't if I were paid to. (I mean, unless it were a 
> really, really large amout of money... Then I would take the money and use 
> it to install a decent operating system on lots of computers!)
>
> I know NSIS messes up our OpenOffice.org installation in some peculiar way: 
> apparently NSIS doesn't support UTF-8 yet. Talk about "behind the times"... 
> that is ARCHAIC.
> ___
>
> #: win32-loader.sh:52
> #. translate:
> #. This must be the string used by Windows to represent your
> #. language's charset.  If you don't know, check [wine]/tools/wmc/lang.c,
> #. or http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/WinCP.mspx
> #.
> #. IMPORTANT: In the rest of this file, only the subset of UTF-8 that can 
> be
> #. converted to this charset should be used.
> msgid "windows-1252"
> msgstr ""
>
> #: win32-loader.sh:57
> #. translate:
> #. Charset used by NTLDR in your localised version of Windows XP.  If you
> #. don't know, maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page helps.
> msgid "cp437"
> msgstr ""
> ___
>
> Both these references provide only "1258" for Vietnamese. Normally, our 
> language requires UTF-8. 1258 would be a legacy encoding, pre-UTF-8. I 
> would rather avoid if it possible, but if this is NSIS, we can't, since it 
> doesn't support UTF-8. <sigh>
>
> So, do I input "windows-1258" for the first string, and "cp1258" for the 
> second?

Let's ask Robert Millan.


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