Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:02:30 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Carmen Chase <sccl@ubbi.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spanish language configurations & preferences Message-ID: <41FD3D56.6060503@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20050128201138.D438943D60@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20050128201138.D438943D60@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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Carmen Chase wrote: >Greetings and salutations from Argentina! > >We’re new to FreeBSD and would like to “HISPANIFY” our BSD system as much as >possible. Though my English is fairly fluent, my husband’s is marginal. > > > That's OK, of course. >For starters, replace the default American english manual (the one >accessible from shells) with one that describes commands in a standard >Spanish. > >2ndly, change system language preference to Spanish - ¿isn’t there a Env >table or something in there that can be configured? Doesn’t KDE auto-select >language based on some system preference table or something? > >3rdly, in as much as possible, change system prompts, messages etc… to >standard Spanish - ¿has anyone bothered yet? If so, leads or instructions >would be great. > Handbook Chapter 18 deals with some of the localization issues you mention. It would be a place to start. Note that FreeBSD documentation is available in Spanish under /usr/share/doc/es/. As for the manual pages, I don't know if that's possible. Well, I mean, it should be possible, but I don't know if translations of the manpages already exist; and furthermore, I'm not aware whether or not a system is in place to build the manpages in the alternate language. It's possible someone with more knowledge on the Doc Team (docs@freebsd.org) might have a better answer for you. Also, have you looked for Spanish-speaking FBSD User Groups online? >We understand that the kernel, shells, etc remain in standard American >computerese, he he he… - no problem there. > >On a dare we put BSD on a AMD K-6 PC which we put together from parts. It’s >been a successful experiment! > > Great! > >Any thoughts, suggestions, leads, hints, instructions would be greatly >appreciated. > >Attently, > >Carmen Chase > >P.D. I used to work on a UNIX terminal back in US many years ago. > > > That kinda cool ;-) Kevin Kinsey
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