On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 06:49:54PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > s??n 2002-09-08 klockan 17.31 skrev Junichi Uekawa: > > No templates should be in UTF-8. > > They need to be converted from their local encoding to > > the UTF-8 on the fly, or on creation of udebs. > > Why can't they be in UTF-8? My "local encoding" *is* UTF-8 (unless I > misunderstand what you mean). And on-the-fly conversion is something > that I want debconf to do, but it also requires specifying the encoding > in the templates files. But I don't see the importance of templates not > being in UTF-8. Precious few editors don't support UTF-8, and even if > someone happens to use an editor that doesn't, there's iconv. Gtk 2 and > hence Gnome 2 use UTF-8 for all text and po files, so it's not as if it > can't be done. > > > We used po files for boot-floppies, and I think it was quite easy to > > maintain, as far as po files went. But I'm used to po files. > > I'm used to po files too, being a member of the Swedish team in the > Translation Project. Using po files is simple enough for a translator > (and fairly well documented). > > > Note that debian-installer goes very far back from boot-floppies in > > respect to i18n. > > Exactly, and since i18n is such a complicated matter, it makes sense to > use what has been produced by others who have thought a lot about it > (e.g. gettext) instead of producing something ourselves that may or may > not be good enough. > > > boot-floppies worked around the size constraints by loading > > locale information from file on CD-Rom, if it was available. > > (xlp.tgz). > > Nod. I'm not 100% up to speed on what the single floppy is supposed to > be able to do (bootstrap for systems that can't boot from CDs and > netinstall I suppose, but what else?) > > This is "a tough nut to crack" as we say in Sweden.
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