On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 07:48:00PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote: > I see that sparc, mips, hppa and m68k have not yet enabled the > LANGUAGE_CHOOSER. Is there any particular reason for that? It would be > good to have i18n on as many architectures as possible by the time we > release.
I just turned it on in ia64, and it is basically working. Relative to my previous non-i18n build, I see these problems: 1. Ugly borders to dialog boxes, using +-| rather than graphics chars. (this on vga, not on serial). This is a real shame, the installer was looking pretty smart in my non-i18n build. I'm assuming other i18n enabled archs have this same problem... 2. Doesn't always redraw the screen. e.g. mke2fs output overwrites the the display without clearing first, and previous dialog box is sometimes visible round the endges of the current one. (this with French, not with English). 3. The french message "Installer le systeme de base - alt-F4 pour deboguer, alt-F1 p" is too long to fit the top of the dialog box. I did vga installs in French, English, and Janpanese, and a serial install in English. The serial install worked just like the non-i18n install, didn't offer language choice, used nice graphics chars for borders. No idea what the Janpanese one was saying to me, but the screen layout, line lengths, etc looked like it might be working ok. I used the i386 language set, although I guess I could use more on ia64 as there is no real space constraint. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
