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At Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:07:38 +0900 (JST), Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > So far debconf has some problems handling multibyte character > encodings such as UTF-8, EUC-JP, EUC-KR, GB2312, and Big5. > Thus, I wrote a patch to enable it. I would like my patch be > tested by peoples who use many 8bit/multibyte characters > before I will ask this patch adopted by debconf. > > Detailed explanation and analysis, screenshots, the patch, > and patched package of debconf are available at: > http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/mojibake/debconf > > A problem occurs when debconf is used in UTF-8 in languages > which use many non-ASCII characters. Since number of bytes > of a string is not same as number of character nor number of > columns, line-folding doesn't work well. In languages with > small amount of non-ASCII characters (such as German), the > problem rarely occurs even in UTF-8, so 8bit/multibyte people > will have to help ourselves otherwise we might be left behind. > > Chinese and Japanese have additional problems. Since they > don't use whitespaces between words, translators have to > insert whitespaces per about 70 columns to ensure the line- > folding work well. Right. I've translated some debconf po files to Japanese and must insert whitespace into unnatural location; Please imagine a string like 'He llo, Debi an'. > To test my patch: > > 1. Download the patched package of debconf and install it. > 2. test the above problematic situations. I tried this with ja_JP.eucJP and ja_JP.UTF8 some weeks ago, and it looks fine. All of my translated debconf message files (XFree86, debconf, PostgreSQL, and so on) were displayed correctly. I hope that more people checks this and JoeyH will merge this patch. - -- Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iEYEARECAAYFAj7uzaYACgkQQKW+7XLQPLGglwCfWEUOehXuKv23i66Qk2tJdcWx nQcAnRLbTWTzmKdVpPuqso/QsifQL+Qv =UjkA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
