Taketoshi Sano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am interested in this topic also. I have read on debian-boot > that Adam Di Carlo maintains the CVS repository for translations > of documents in boot-floppies, but I don't know if the dinstall > in boot-floppies have the feature required for i18n & l10n installer.
I don't work on dbootstrap (the name of the installer program). > I think that since the normal virtual console of Linux can not display > Japanese text [...] > Maybe the installer for potato does not afford to adopt those new scheme, > but we require the multi-lingual or (at least) localized installer for > the people who needs the support in their native language. Yes. For slink, we have a set of boot disks which is monolingual. L10n'ers would have to cook their own for other languages. > Which is the better choice ? for support of various language in > installer of Debian (installer messages, documents, ...) > a) provide the install CD which have the support for all required languages. > b) provide some install CDs, one for each required language support. We need to distinguish between: * boot/root system (including dbootstrap) * base system (one base2_2.tgz has been installed) Squeezing stuff into boot/root is difficult but perhaps possible. Once base is installed, however, all stuff should be fully i18n/l10n'd. > NABETANI wrote he thinks that b) is better, and let the one CD in official > CD-ROMs be the install CD for each language, and the rest be unified CDs. (a) is theoretically better, IMHO, but we may or may not have space for it. > I know that Debian JP project had worked to create our localized > installer for Japanese people on hamm and slink. They are included > in hamm-jp and slink-jp add-on packages. But we found that if we > continue the separate work From Debian, it may be difficult to be > adopted by Debian that the enhancement of the installer of Debian to > support multi-language or at least localized installation. So we > have decided to not release potato-jp, and currently we (Debian JP) > do no work to create the localized installer for potato. Some (at > least one) members in JP project is now doing the translations for > boot-floppies, and are waiting to be registered as the official > member of Debian hoping to cooperate to make the multi-lingurized > installer. I applaud your effort to work directly with the debian-boot team. We do not require official Debian developership to be given write-permissions on the boot-floppies CVS tree. Anyone with time and competency (knows CVS, etc) who wants to work on this should send my, encrypted using my public key, a user/pass pair to use. > (some members create another project to research the possibility of > easy installation of Debian, and other members create one other > project to provide the localized distribution based on Debian, but > currently they are independent activity from Debian JP, and I think > that JP project should not have the close relation with them, which > is only my personal opinion currently,,,) My sole interest is that we can go into freeze with a relatively robust and feature-complete boot-floppies. This seems less and less likely, as there are only 3 or 4 people working on the boot-floppies. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
