[Tomohiro KUBOTA] > I am a maintainer of language-env. I am glad if we can cooperate.
This sounds good. I send you an email a while ago, but did not see a reply. Not sure if the email got lost. <URL:https://init.linpro.no/pipermail/skolelinux.no/devel/2003-October/000779.html>. > Since I don't know at all about console fonts and keyboard settings > (since I am a Japanese speaker and there are no methods to configure > console for Japanese), I want help on these fields. I'm not to sure about console settings either. The current locale-config-skolelinux do not set console font and keyboard. Console keyboard is set by debian-installer, so I saw no need to duplicate the work, and the console font is not properly set by any package. base-config try to set it while running, but it will not make its setting permanent. > I have some questions. Does the whole locale-config-skolelinux > package have a list of "supported packages" and then each supported > package has a list of supported languages? Or, does the whole > locale-config-skolelinux package have a list of "supported languages" > and then each language governs which packages to support? Both. You can run 'update-locale -l' to list the supported languages, and their supported subsystems. The implementation consist of several small scripts for each type of configuration, and each script have a list of languages it supports. > I think the latter way is better, because popular (or usable) > packages are different between languages. For example, 8bit > softwares are useless for multibyte people. There may be more > accidental difference, for example, that zsh is popular than bash in > a country where a popular magazine in that country had an article of > zsh. If a language is not supported by a specific package/program, the language should not be listed in the script handling that package. > Also, some language-specific configurations are not able to be > completely automated because they are based on user preferences, > like which Japanese input engine to be used, while all Japanese > people want to use one of Japanese input engines. Yes. This also apply to timezone selection in large countries. I'm not sure how this is best handled. > BTW, why do KDE and Opera need locale configuration? I imagine a > common configuration -- LANG variable -- should be enough. In a perfect future world, perhaps. But it does not work yet. :) Until it does, we have to handle them separately.
