On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:44:40PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > I don't require Debian developers to master i18n programming. I think > it is apparently too heavy. However, I want Debian developers that > there exist such problems, so that when they received bug reports or > patches related to i18n, they understand what the reporters are saying > and how severe the problem is. It is like that security is not Debian- > specific problem but every Debian developers should know at least basic > concept of security, though I agree that I18N is less important than > security.
I absolutely agree with this view. > > I imagine the last screenshot of my debconf webpage or screenshots from > my "mojibake" webpage: It's nice to know what "mojibake" is. > http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/mojibake/ > will help developers feel the severity of the problem and the situation > where Asian people are located. I hope people who see the screenshots > will understand why CJK people says "translation is a relatively small > topic in i18n area". Yes. I've been through the pages and get your point precisely. I will try to add some of the screenshots and make some of your points at the conference. > > Thus, please don't hesitate even if you don't master encoding issues. > If there will be some technical details, I think the point is that > developers should not depend on assumptions which are valid only for > a part of languages (such as "one character is one byte", "words are > separated by whitespaces", and so on). (...) I will add these examples. > > BTW, the descriptions in intro-i18n get older and older these days. > I have to revise.... > Yes, that would be nice since I guess that would help very much the understanding of this issues in Debian. Could you also please translate the debconf mojibake page [1]. I did read the discussion in i18n about encoding for debconf and the screen captures are very enlightening but I would like to know what were you trying to get across in the web page. Thanks for all the information Javi [1] http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/mojibake/debconf.html
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