From owner-freebsd-config Tue Sep 8 14:56:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20399 for freebsd-config-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:56:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ocean.campus.luth.se (ocean.campus.luth.se [130.240.194.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20262 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:55:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se) Received: (from karpen@localhost) by ocean.campus.luth.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA04999; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 23:51:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from karpen) From: Mikael Karpberg Message-Id: <199809082151.XAA04999@ocean.campus.luth.se> Subject: Re: French translation of sysinstall In-Reply-To: <199809072247.AAA03485@sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo> from Stephane Legrand at "Sep 8, 98 00:47:39 am" To: Stephane.Legrand@wanadoo.fr (Stephane Legrand) Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 23:51:11 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk According to Stephane Legrand: > So, i wonder if this is technically possible to make a such > translation ? Especially, can the special french characters like > accents and the difference between french and english phrases length > be a serious problem ? I see one serious problem. You will have to use the iso font, which makes sysinstall look like _shit_. All the frames become 8bit characters, and stuff. I don't recommend you try it, and I hope the next sysinstall (if it uses "windows" like the old one) uses minuses, pipe chars, etc to build borders on the "windows" instead of the charcters which aren't there in the iso font. /Mikael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message