Re: [debian-knoppix] Please, add lithuanian language to knoppix
>From Mantas Kriauciunas on Sunday, 2003-02-02 at 17:15:14 +0200:
> Hi,
>
> I'm from public organisation "Open Source for Lithuania" (www.akl.lt).
> Recently I found this excellent product (Knoppix ;)). It is very good
> for promoting linux, because it's easy to use and it is based on another
> very good product - Debian.
> Our organisation would like to coordinate lithuanian language support
> in Knoppix. I've tested Knoppix and found, that lithuanian locale should
> be supported (I tried dpkg-reconfigure locales and found, that lithuanian
> locale is enabled, also I tried to write some lithuanian symbols in OpenOffice
> and KDE and tried to start some localised programs like AbiWord).
> I found these problems:
I am working on a Knoppix derivative that will include support
for Nordic languages and the Baltics: Iceland, Norway, Sweden,
Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
> 1. There are problems with lithuanian locale - there are no
> /usr/share/locale/lt directory and for example when I start
> abiword I get AbiWord in lithuanian but only english symbols are displayed.
I have fixed this.
> 2. kde-i18n-lt package is not installed :(
> knoppix@ttyp2[lt]$ dpkg -s kde-i18n-lt
> Package: kde-i18n-lt
> Status: purge ok not-installed
> Priority: optional
> Section: x11
I have fixed this.
> 3. there are no option lang=lt in boot, I'm attaching the strings,
> that should be added in /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig to this message.
I have fixed this.
> 4. there are no scalable fonts with iso8859-13, iso8859-4,iso8859-10
> or iso10646 encodings (RedHat already has these fonts). Because of
> this I can't write lithuanian symbols in OpenOffice, but there are no
> problems in other programs, like mozilla, Kword, Kedit, etc.
I am uncertain how to fix this. Could you point me in the right
direction?
Conrad
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