Hello! As some of you may know, our current boot-floppies set has some support for i18n.
Chris LeBars has changed every printable string in the installation system to a macro, and defined all that macros in a header file, lang_C.h. Using a different language is as simple as changing a #define to use a different lang_<lang>.h file and recompiling the package. It's not as powerful and smart as using gettext, but it requires less space on the boot floppy (a scarce resource), and ... it's done already. There are some parts that must be treated separately: modconf, the help texts shown by syslinux at boot time, the script run after the first reboot, busybox, ... I still plan to use gettext for slink, but for all of you who would like to use the current method to provide boot-floppies in your preferred language, I've put a copy of lang_C.h at http://master.debian.org/~ezanard If you want me to include your translation in the next boot-floppies release, feel free to send it to me. Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
