Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 22:17:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Rashid Karimov." <rashid@haven.ios.com> To: jkh@morton.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Translators needed urgently! Message-ID: <199504300217.WAA00666@haven.ios.com> In-Reply-To: <199504292020.NAA05829@morton.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 29, 95 01:20:05 pm
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Hi there,
>
> Well, ahem.. Let me be more precise.. Just as soon as I have
> something for them to translate, then they're needed urgently! :-)
>
> That's why I haven't made much noise about this up to now, but it
> occurs to me that I'd better have my contact list well in order now if
> I'm have any hope at all for a fast turnaround on translations for
> 2.0.5.
>
> I'd like to have at least the top level README, and perhaps the
> INSTALL guide (both of which I'll be revamping substantially in the
> next 24 hours or so) in the following languages:
>
> Dutch, French, German, Danish, Swedish, Russian
Oh God ... Hope someone's already
volunteered for Russian ( the FreeBSD is N1 Unix "flavor"
over there , BTW ), but if not - I can do it :)
>
> The new sysinstall has a menu for setting the language type and will
> look first in help/${LANG}/<document> if LANG is set, which the
> installer also allows you to do from a convenient menu.
>
> I'm going for only the european languages as I'm not certain I'll be
> able to fit the Japanese fonts on the first floppy. I can certainly
> do ISO-8859-1, which gets me pretty much all the european ones, and
> koi8 is also small. If I *can* manage Japanese then I certainly will,
> of course, but I don't even have a syscons font or screen map for it
> yet.
>
> Oh yes, anyone helping out with a translation will, of course, receive
> a free 2.0.5 CDROM! 2 even! :-)
WOW !!! :) Would you sign it ? Along with McKusick? :))
>
Rashid
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