On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 08:47:49AM +0700, arief muLya wrote: > Is there any port to Indonesian Language in Debian's wolrd, yet? > How can I help?
Support for a language is a range. If I'm not mistaken, Indonesian is written in the Latin script and can be written using the English alphabet and the following characters: ���������������������������������������������������������������� (aka Latin-1). Right? If so, then you're lucky - Debian's programs will work for you without problems, unlike Arabic, Hebrew or (sometimes) Japanese speakers. If you're running Woody or Sid, you need to add id_ID to /etc/locale.gen - there's a Debconf interface in the recent versions of locales. (If you're running Potato, I'd recommend switch to Woody or Sid if you plan to do much localization.) The main problem left is translation. You might want to check out http://i18n.linux.or.id for what's being worked on. If you want to help with Debian specifically, find a Debian-native program that's not been translated to Indonesian and translate it (most use po files - the site I just give should details, albeit I can't read it.) Alternately, you can translate the debconf templates - somebody else can explain that for you. In my uninformed opinion, I'd concentrate on end-user programs, like Mozilla, KDE and Gnome. Trying to translate everything the sysadmin needs to read to Indonesian is a hopeless task, while KDE can be translated by a few (very dedicated) individual (Wolfram Diestel is the only KDE translator for Esperanto, and Esperanto is one of the most throughly translated languages for KDE applications (but not documentation).) And getting KDE or Gnome translated can give an end-user the appearance of an almost complete translation, whereas you'd have to translate the whole system for the sysadmin to get that impression. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED], dvdeug/jabber.com (Jabber) Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org When the aliens come, when the deathrays hum, when the bombers bomb, we'll still be freakin' friends. - "Freakin' Friends"
