Quoting Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Languages with Latin alphabet: 1 floppy
> Languages with hieroglyphic alphabet: 1 floppy
> Languages with other alphabet: 1 floppy
Hmm, Anton, only Ancient Egyptian falls into the 2nd category..:-)
I guess you wanted to mention ideograms alphabet, so
On 1.IV.2004 at 21:37 Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Everything except the asian langs currently fits on one floppy still,
> but that is unlikely to last. I need to find some way to split the latin
> languages, or perhaps split out the cryllic ones.
This is one possible split:
Languages with Latin alphab
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> From: Eddy Petrisor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: splitting root floppy by languages
> Date: 04 Apr 2004 21:22:09 +0300
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> On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 20:33, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > ..
> And IIRC Finnish and Hungarian are both Latin1
Not sure about Finnish but Hungarian is definitely Latin2.
(Latin2 means iso-8859-2, right?)
Latin1 doesn't have double-acute accented characters, which are
used frequently in Hungarian.
Cheers,
Istvan
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Joey Hess wrote:
> I don't feel that this is a very useful split, because you have to
> assume that users may *not* be aware of these categories, and so you end
> up having to list all the languages on each disk.
Are there *any* categories you can assume that users will be aware of (and
understan
Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> SEMITIC: ar, he
> SLAVIC: bg, bs, cs, pl, ru, sk, sl, uk
> ROMANCE: ca, es, fr, gl, it, pt, pt_BR, ro
> GERMANIC: da, de, en, nl, nb, nn, sv
> FINNO-UGRIC: fi, hu
> other families: cy, el, id, lt, sq, tr
I don't feel that this is a very useful split, because you have to
Steve Langasek wrote:
> Slavic languages are split between Latin2 and Cyrillic for the character
> sets, so this may not an optimal grouping.
Working out the character set groupings? Great idea... I really have
absolutely no idea which languages use which code points. I was just
trying to come
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 08:17:13AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> You could go with the language familes. These are mostly in ISO 639a,
> though that doesn't have bs (Bosnian), or nb and nn (Norwegian was still
> no). They're also accurate as far as I know linguistically. :-)
> ASIAN: ja, ko,
Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Hmm. Indonesian (id) has its own alphabet.
Correction, no, brain-fade.
> So does Turkish (tr).
But not very many non-Latin letters in it. :-)
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Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>> Everything except the asian langs currently fits on one floppy still,
>> but that is unlikely to last. I need to find some way to split the latin
>> languages, or perhaps split out the cryllic ones.
>
> This would give us:
>
[Joey Hess]
> After watching translations eat up some 50 kilobytes that I freed on
> the root floppy 2 weeks ago, I give up. I'm splitting this floppy
> into language or region specific floppies.
Perhaps this is a good time to fix http://bugs.debian.org/212921>,
and make it possible to append tran
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Everything except the asian langs currently fits on one floppy still,
> but that is unlikely to last. I need to find some way to split the latin
> languages, or perhaps split out the cryllic ones.
This would give us:
Asian root: 4languages : ja, ko, zh_TW
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Can you put all 8bit languages (about everything with latin chars,
> everything that work in text mode) on one set or is that to big? Not
> having the chinese or japanese chars should reduce the fonts
> considerably.
Everything except the asian langs currently fits on
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After watching translations eat up some 50 kilobytes that I freed on the
> root floppy 2 weeks ago, I give up. I'm splitting this floppy into
> language or region specific floppies. So far I have one for Asian
> languages with zh_TW zh_CN ja ko (and en) on i
Kenshi Muto wrote:
> I seconded.
> Don't forget to modify languagelist :-)
Well, I am using the standard languagechooser on the Asian root floppy
for now. Yes, you can boot it and choose some unsupported language, but
you'll only see a few screens untranslated anyway before the rest of the
(still
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At 2 Apr 04 00:03:09 GMT,
Joey Hess wrote:
> After watching translations eat up some 50 kilobytes that I freed on the
> root floppy 2 weeks ago, I give up. I'm splitting this floppy into
> language or region specific floppies. So far I have one fo
After watching translations eat up some 50 kilobytes that I freed on the
root floppy 2 weeks ago, I give up. I'm splitting this floppy into
language or region specific floppies. So far I have one for Asian
languages with zh_TW zh_CN ja ko (and en) on it. That works well because
its not too many lan
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