Javier Fern�ndez-Sanguino Pe�a wrote: > > I sent last week a testing program to the debian-user-spanish > mailing list in order to see how the euro support was amongst > Debian users in order to try to automate it's inclusion in > the user-es package (so that users do not have to tinker with > strange configuration file). >
Hi ! I'm doing the same for french users (but using T. Kubota's language-env package plus a user-friendly documentation in french), in the frame of "how to correctly configure your debian system for french". I'd like to know : is your package for debian woody or both stable & woody ? What I'm trying to do is to provide a solution for both systems. I suggest euro-makers on this list take contact with each others to give the solutions they propose to their users. I've made a small documentation available at http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/nico/debian/debian-french.html/ BUT ONLY IN FRENCH (I'm sorry, I had no time to translate it). > I was surprised to see that many users did not have euro support > and didn't know how to include it. Since this seems to be > a general problem for Debian users, I have drafted an > 'euro-support' package. The idea of the package is to: > > a) provide information on how to test and do it himself > b) automatically add euro configuration to a user setup > Think that the "adding euro" problem will only appear once. I mean, within 2 months, everybody will need to have it. As a consequence, I think Debian should give the users a system with euro for europeans users, don't you think so ? IMO, this means : - making sure that the "regular" installation of woody makes euro accessible to anybody - proposing an extension for potato with euro support. The second point is one of the reasons why I'm trying to use T. Kubota's package, wich totally & automatically backportable to potato. However, if your package does the same, I'm very intersted in looking at it. > > I would appreciate any kind of help both in improving the > documentation (please submit patches against the sgml sources > found in the source package) and code for the automatic > configuration of systems to the euro symbol. I have some ideas > already but it's difficult to code when you do not know what > changes might the user have already done to configuration files.... > As far as I've seen, it is a very hard task. I had to make a very complete documentation to answer all user's specific questions. Plus I believe the solution you adopt depend on the language you use. OK for iso8859-1 languages (spanish, german, french for instance), but what about other languages. Please to meet other "euro-friendly" maintainers, ;-) -- Nicolas SABOURET LIMSI-CNRS, BP133, 91403 Orsay, France http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/nico
