Ok, we are finally nearing the point where we will be able to make practically (if not completely) internationalized boot-floppies. If we can work out a few final kinks, boot-floppies (for i386 and particpating porters) will be by default, internationalized.
To see what that's like (with some warts), see http://alpha.onshore.com/~apharris/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current-i18n/ Use the compact or idepci sets, which have the requisite framebuffer support. This means that the messages for dbootstrap are suddenly rather useful and practical and matter. As the boot-floppies leader, I am sending out this call for translators to update their translations, and keep them updated. I apologize for any frustration on the part of non-English speakers or translators based on the fact that their translations have not been part of the mainstream version for so long. Based on what I can determine, these are the most untranslated messages, from worst to best: it last update: ?? prior to 1999-03-20 sk last update: ?? prior to 1999-03-20 hr last update: 1999-04-11 19:39 Matej Vela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tr last update: 2000-02-07 06:23 Andreas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fi last update: 2000-02-10 14:10 Tapio Lehtonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eo last update: 2000-06-07 16:41 Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fr last update: 2000-06-17 21:52 Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cs last update: 2000-06-19 06:00 Petr Cech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ja last update: 2000-07-04 12:46 Keita Maehara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> es last update: 2000-08-24 10:04 Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hu last update: 2000-08-30 09:10 Risko Gergely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> de last update: 2000-09-11 09:58 Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The following languages are up-to-date: pl pt ru sv If a language is not listed here, and you would like to start that translation, it's never too late. We are still making updates for Potato, and will soon be working on woody. For information on accessing the boot-floppies CVS area and help for translators, go to http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/?only_with_tag=MAIN&cvsroot=debian-boot#dirlist, and look at the newest versions of README-CVS and README-Translators, respectively. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
