From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 16:32:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B434A37B8BF; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:32:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA27513; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:32:10 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAbGaiS1; Thu Jun 1 16:32:04 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA00560; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:32:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200006012332.QAA00560@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Why encourage stupid people to use *BSD WAS:Re: IE forFreeBSDPetition To: nik@FreeBSD.ORG (Nik Clayton) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 23:32:18 +0000 (GMT) Cc: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000530122350.A2798@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> from "Nik Clayton" at May 30, 2000 12:23:50 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 02:41:31AM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > In fact, now that I think about it, our installation routine is > > available only in English, isn't it? (I've heard that there's a > > localized Japanese installer, but it isn't in the repository.) > > I know the French translation team have expressed an interest in a French > sysinstall. > > Of course, step 1 in this project is localsing sysinstall in the first > place. Translating message strings is (I think) somewhat simpler. I have XPG/4 tools which would allow this to be done using macros in the source code to derive the initial "C" locale catalog from the source code. It could be re-derived, as necessary. The need to perform translation is really trivial, compared to this. I am willing to make these tools available. They do not understand "#if" based block comments (for obvious reasons), and they do not understand C++ sytle comments, but they should be usable against perl, C, and C++ code because of the regularity of the grammar. The tool is, in effect, a source post processor combined with a set of preprocessor macros for inclusion in the code (perl people would need to roll their own). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message