Hi All,
Has anyone got any feedback on the below email from Peter. If we
don't get some sort of buy in for a generic miniroot UTF-8 then I'll
have to go down the line of moving pt_BR.ISO8859-1 locale out of
SUNWsamos to a new package that goes on CD1. This is what our
predecessors did in the past for FIGSS i.e. de_DE.ISO8859-1 was moved
out of SUNWceuos to a new package SUNWdeiso1. This was because SUNWceuos
is too big for CD1. The problem with this approach is that is would only
work for Nevada as you can't move files betweeen pkgs in UR.
Thanks,
Dermot
Peter.Nugent at Sun.COM wrote On 02/16/07 14:15,:
> as you may know we are in the process of adding solaris localisations
> for Brazilian Potuguese (pt_BR) and possibly Russian (ru).
> Currently, to run a localised installer, the installer must run in a
> locale of that language. So for example, the German installer runs in
> de_DE.ISO8859-1. As a consequence, each time we add a new
> localisation, we need to add a new miniroot locale package for that
> localisation. Furthermore, we may also need to add a new miniroot
> fonts package for certain languages (like ru).
>
> What I'm thinking about is having a more scalable approach where we
> run all localisations in a generic miniroot UTF-8 locale package and a
> single miniroot "unicode fonts" package containing the minimum set of
> fonts required to support the typically used characters of all
> scripts. This way there is no need to worry about adding new miniroot
> fonts or locales any time we add a new localisation.
>
> I'd like to hear people's feedback on the advantages and disadvantages
> of this approach, especially any of you who have an insight into how
> the installer works "under the bonnet"
>
> thx
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