From owner-freebsd-i18n Wed Dec 18 5:44: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4F0037B401; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:44:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay1.cris.net (relay1.cris.net [212.110.128.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA71643EDA; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:44:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ml@phantom.cris.net) Received: from phantom.cris.net (root@phantom.cris.net [212.110.130.74]) by relay1.cris.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBIFOxip077006; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:25:02 GMT Received: (from ml@localhost) by phantom.cris.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) id gBIDmsId028367; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:48:54 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ml) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:48:54 +0200 From: Alexey Zelkin To: Tim Robbins Cc: Evren Yurtesen , freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i18n question about localization Message-ID: <20021218154854.A28347@phantom.cris.net> References: <20021218165202.A86732@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021218165202.A86732@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>; from tjr@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:52:02PM +1100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:52:02PM +1100, Tim Robbins wrote: > > I was wondering if it is possible to localize sysinstall and 'all' other > > system programs easily with the help of i18n stuff? if yes then a link to > > a document which describes how to proceed would suffice. > > > > I ask this because the linux has been translated into Turkish for example > > but there is no such thing about FreeBSD going on. I might volunteer for > > the job if it is easy enough =) > > Most of the utilities in the base system aren't easy to translate yet. > The only ones that I know of that would be easy to translate are nvi, tcsh, > and ee. > > I've been thinking about implementing a GNU/Solaris style gettext() library > and converting the utilities to use that but haven't had the time or energy > to do it yet. No need to implement it. I have development patchset which add support for gettext()-style and str{error,signal}() translation primitives. But unfortunatelly last months were too busy to clean them up and make commit ready :-( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message