Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 13:36:35 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Philippe CASIDY <pcasidy@worldnet.fr> Cc: Sebastien.Gioria@FranceNet.fr, freebsd-install@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of sysinstall ? Message-ID: <11047.933798995@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Aug 1999 16:51:06 %2B0200." <199908041451.QAA02766@greatoak.home>
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> I spent a few time looking into the sources of sysinstall. It is "quite" > easy to make a French version : moving all the texts in a separate > file and to compile either a French or English version using a macro > definition. I think that for PAO, they just translate the text but I am > not sure : I hav to get hand on PAO sysinstall sources. It needs to be message-cataloged in a really big way, but that's still a ways off. I think the Japanese folks sort of did this once, but the patches have vanished into obscurity. > The most interesting is having a multi-lingual tool. Let the user > select which language he wants and then dynamically change the text. > But unfortunately, it requires huge code rework I cannot evaluate now. Yep! > and it is not easy to dynamically change this values! > > John, do you confirm? Yes, the current sysinstall was not written with localization in mind and it's a difficult task for anyone to contemplate. I wish I could give you better news than this. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message
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