From owner-freebsd-libh Mon Jun 10 0:24: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from columbus.cris.net (columbus.cris.net [212.110.128.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D00EB37B400 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 00:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ark.cris.net (root@ark.cris.net [212.110.128.68]) by columbus.cris.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA30443; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:23:52 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from phantom@localhost) by ark.cris.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g5A7Np724038; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:23:51 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:23:51 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin To: Antoine Beaupre Cc: freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www progress.html Message-ID: <20020610102351.A22945@ark.cris.net> References: <20020606192159.A22774@phantom.cris.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx on Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:54:15PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:54:15PM -0400, Antoine Beaupre wrote: > > Just took a look and have a question: Why > > Multilanguage support milstone is referencing to > > Citrus project ? Citrus is NetBSD based project. > > Or correctly to say FreeBSD based, but NetBSD oriented. > > Ah. I wasn't aware of that. I thought Citrus was also FreeBSD-oriented. It's not easy to understand because project has quite a little english documents. They're mostly japanese. > The milestone references the citrus project because it is the only thing > I know on the FreeBSD camp that intends to make a full BSD replacement > for gettext. Yeah. This is one of main points in my TODO list -- checking & importing Citrus's libintl (gettext library) to main source tree, but due to big overload with real work it's not done yet. > > FreeBSD has enough infrastructure to i18n support And > > actually has better multilanguage support comparing to > > Net and Open BSDs (at least for single-byte charsets) > > Maybe for charsets and such, but is there really a non-GPL gettext > implementation in FreeBSD? I don't think so. It is. Almost. As soon as I get finished with testing Citrus's libintl. > I'm not worried about locale (dates, strings), but translation of output > language. :-) You don't need to worry about locale because It Just Works. > Note that I don't know much about all this language stuff. I've used > gettext a bit, but that's all. > > If you have better ideas, please tell me. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message