>[Kenshi Muto] >> I'm testing debian-installer, but found some problems about >> localize messages. > >I just noticed that no one replied to your message. Some of the >issues you brought up are fixed, as we moved the translation of menu >entries to templates, while others are yet to be solved. > >> 4. Build tool makes reduced UTF font for bogl-term, but checks only >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.templates and some English characters (using by >> `strings' tool. This tool doesn't recognize UTF-8 character). >> /var/lib/dpkg/status isn't be checked. so if we includes >> Description-LL into udeb merely, some of character will be missing. >> >> 5. Moreover, this font check works only very small first stage of >> debian-installer. Debian-installer dynamically loads installer >> packages and show menu (retrieved from Packages file of >> debian-installer apt-line), but some of their strings will be >> missing. The contents of Packages file depends on architecture. >> >> Do you have a good idea? > >These two are still unsolved, as far as I know. I have no idea how to >extract UTF-8 strings like 'strings' do on binaries. > >One idea for the bterm font problem is to teach bterm do detect when a >new bterm-unifont package is installed, and to start using this new >and complete font file when this happen. I'm not sure how easy that >is.
The first, I think, is not a problem: there is IIRC no code in debian-installer itself that uses gettext, so the only non-ASCII strings should be within the templates. We only see gettext once baseconfig runs and we have code within /target; by then bterm-unifont, with the full font, should be in place. For the second, I think the best solution is to signal bterm to restart with the new font when installed; this means a patch for bterm, which I'll investigate. I'll patch bterm to restart quietly on receiving SIGHUP rather than die. (I have i18n fixes for kbd-chooser and choose-mirror to test and commit first, once the daily builds are working properly; they're not for me, but the ftp.ie.debian.org mirror is a bit behind.; I'll see tonight). I started a solution to this a while back, and put code in the bterm-unifont udeb postinst to KILL -HUP bterm. this is wrong; I could put it in bterm-unifont.isinstallable. This works, but abuses the isinstallable semantics again. Any better ideas? > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
