Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:23:51 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org> To: Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx> Cc: freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www progress.html Message-ID: <20020610102351.A22945@ark.cris.net> In-Reply-To: <CC758CA4-797E-11D6-8A4B-0050E4A0BB3F@anarcat.ath.cx>; from anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx on Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:54:15PM -0400 References: <20020606192159.A22774@phantom.cris.net> <CC758CA4-797E-11D6-8A4B-0050E4A0BB3F@anarcat.ath.cx>
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hi, On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:54:15PM -0400, Antoine Beaupre wrote: > > Just took a look and have a question: Why > > Multilanguage support milstone is referencing to > > Citrus project ? Citrus is NetBSD based project. > > Or correctly to say FreeBSD based, but NetBSD oriented. > > Ah. I wasn't aware of that. I thought Citrus was also FreeBSD-oriented. It's not easy to understand because project has quite a little english documents. They're mostly japanese. > The milestone references the citrus project because it is the only thing > I know on the FreeBSD camp that intends to make a full BSD replacement > for gettext. Yeah. This is one of main points in my TODO list -- checking & importing Citrus's libintl (gettext library) to main source tree, but due to big overload with real work it's not done yet. > > FreeBSD has enough infrastructure to i18n support And > > actually has better multilanguage support comparing to > > Net and Open BSDs (at least for single-byte charsets) > > Maybe for charsets and such, but is there really a non-GPL gettext > implementation in FreeBSD? I don't think so. It is. Almost. As soon as I get finished with testing Citrus's libintl. > I'm not worried about locale (dates, strings), but translation of output > language. :-) You don't need to worry about locale because It Just Works. > Note that I don't know much about all this language stuff. I've used > gettext a bit, but that's all. > > If you have better ideas, please tell me. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message
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