From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 21 02:26:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA16984 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 02:26:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA16593 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 02:22:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA15349 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:20:47 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA20947 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:20:47 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id KAA12190 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:41:50 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603210941.KAA12190@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: internationalization To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:41:50 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Mar 20, 96 01:47:26 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Chuck Robey wrote: > 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? German is in the unusual advantage that it can be run with a simple 8-bit clean environment without much tweaking, now that ISO-8859-1 is de facto the default font for most things around here in a Unix environment. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)