From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 20 10:48:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA24228 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:48:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA24183 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:48:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilligan.eng.umd.edu (gilligan.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.205]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA18125 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:47:28 -0500 (EST) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by gilligan.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA05743; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:47:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:47:26 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@gilligan.eng.umd.edu To: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: internationalization Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am just a little puzzled on one point. In ports, we have a healthy sized couple of sections dedicated to ports that have been handcrafted for Russian and Japanese FreeBSDers. I was thinking about this, and I occurred to me that probably the largest group of FreeBSDers with a non-English home tongue would be the Germans. How come there is no German section? Are a very large number of Germans content with English programs, or is the interest not there, or are these things showing up on different venues? I don't speak German myself, but it does seem unreasonable, given the size of the German audience. I would suppose this would go with equal force for the French folks (I read the comments of many French FreeBSD contributors with interest). Why is there no /usr/ports/french? ========================================================================== Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, One Account to make them all and in the network bind them.