Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:50:50 +0100 From: Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months Message-ID: <200412031050.52137.freebsd@redesjm.local> In-Reply-To: <41AE5169.3000909@freebsd.org> References: <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org> <20041201232052.GA35040@xor.obsecurity.org> <41AE5169.3000909@freebsd.org>
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El Jueves, 2 de Diciembre de 2004 00:19, Scott Long escribi=F3: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:10:57PM -0700, Ryan Sommers wrote: > >>Another issue I had with the dfly installer was one point I believe > >> needs to be central to any next-gen installer. > >> Internationalisation. > > > > Careful not to pile on so many wishes that achieving anything > > becomes impossible. Our current installer doesn't do this, so it's > > not a hard requirement that a better installer should. > > > > Kris > > Internationalization is actually quite important, and is not easy to > bolt on after the fact but is fairly easy to program to once the core > is in place. The fact that sysinstall doesn't have it makes it no > less important. Now this isn't a reason to reject the DFly work, but > it could certainly be a good area for someone to contribute. > > Scott > Sure. I can confirm this. But this issue must be take with care. 1.- This is an overall effort that, IMHO, must begin with a real i18n=20 ports work. Actual ports doesn't have a well defined i18n behavior. 2.- this covers several unrelated issues: - i18n, lang related issues. iso8859-1, unicode, arabic ... - l10n, locale related issues (country specific). - base system oper (try hack arround loader with a foreing keyboard). About the base system, I have really bad experiences with i18n/locale=20 support in boot/system works. This must be a low priority task. But I'll be really glad to see some basic foreing keyboard/console=20 support in boot/loader as: boot> keyb sp =2D- josemi
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