On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:04:34PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > Hi, > > I am now trying to solve Bug#148490, where Debconf cannot convert > translated messages (like Description) into proper encoding according > to the current LC_CTYPE locale. > > (For example, messages should be outputed in UTF-8 in fr_FR.UTF-8 > locale while ISO-8859-15 should be used in [EMAIL PROTECTED] locale.) > > > However, for the script to work well, I have to know what encodings > are the original debconf translations written in. For example, > Japanese translations (Description-ja:) are written in EUC-JP > encoding and Polish translations are written in ISO-8859-2 encoding. > > A list of already-translated languages is available in the > page of http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/templates/ . >
> ca ISO-8859-1 ? ISO-8859-15 ? what language is this? > fi ISO-8859-1 ? ISO-8859-15 ? ISO-8859-2, or ISO-8859-15. However, in practise, (insufficient) ISO-8859-1 is used. (all these encodings share used codepoints from ISO-8859-1, so they are practically 100% upwards compatible) > lt ISO-8859-13 or ISO-8859-4 However, the only debconf template in lithuanian is in package maintained by me :-), and that uses ISO-8859-13 > ro ISO-8859-2 Wrong. ISO-8859-2 was used because of lack of better encoding, but is not sufficient for romanian. ISO-8859-16 should be used. > ru KOI8-R ? ISO-8859-5 ? almost exclusively KOI8-R for linux. > se ? > sv ISO-8859-1 ? ISO-8859-15 ? isn't it se_SV? (se is language name - swedish, SV country - Sweden) > > > Or, to internationalize Debconf, it may be a good idea to convert > all Debconf templates into UTF-8. The merits of this way are And I'd really welcome it. Btw what happens if I do it manually? Would your script be confused and fail? -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
