Hi, At Wed, 11 Sep 2002 05:06:00 -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> If the program converting .po files to template files always uses iconv > to convert the .po file's encoding to UTF-8, and debconf always uses iconv > to convert from UTF-8 to the locale encoding for display, shouldn't there > be no problems? > > Junichi said that "UTF-8 is not a one-to-one match with EUC-JP.", and I'm > not sure what he meant. I think there are no problem, when thinking about round-trip compatibility, if we declare to use one particular mapping table --- glibc's one. (XFree86 has its own set of tables but it tries to be same to glibc's.) However, I have one concern. Debconf is one of softwares which is used in early stage of Debian installation. Thus, Debconf should not depend on many/large packages/data. Encoding conversion is a relatively heavy process. I mean, collection of conversion tables is large. I don't know if iconv (I can use "libtext-iconv-perl" package) or encoding conversion in gettext work well without "locales" package or not. Do you have any idea? If it *needs*, it means that Debconf cannot use encoding conversion in small systems or early stage of installation. Even in such cases, Debconf should work fairly good in popular locales (like ISO-8859-15 for French and EUC-JP for Japanese). If it *doesn't need*, we can freely design new Debconf to use iconv or gettext. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
