On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 02:19:09PM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> >
> > This is wanted but nobody did work on this yet afaik.
> > It would be good if there would be multiple keyboard layouts too I
> > think.
>
> I think that different keyboard layouts it's even more important than
> different languages...
>
> Do we have any plan? Maybe I will take a look (but during 20 days in
> october I will not have lot of time :-( so not sure if I will do it
> after October or not, I will see...)
>
> Any suggestion for the implementation? How user would change the
> keyboard layout? Or maybe at beginning some setting (variable) at
> grub.cfg?
Hi,
It's very nice you want to work on localisation. This is a very welcome
feature (and I think it's been discussed before).
(I assume we're talking about a gettext equivalent rather than keyboard
layouts, which is a separate -but also nice- feature)
My recommendation for a roadmap (please comment/discuss/challenge/etc!) would
be:
- gettextise the util tools, so they can be translated as normal programs.
- add support to grub (a gettext module or so) so that it can load our .mo
files and obtain strings from it, by implementing gettext() (aka _()).
I'd also recommend making the user interface similar to posix locales, for
consistency's sake (which you know I hold dearly ;-)).
Even if you only have time/interest to implement the first part, this is
already a significant benefit. Keep in mind that grub.cfg generation is done
by update-grub which happens entirely on userland, so we get translated menu
entries that way.
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