Re: [9fans] localization

2011-04-27 Thread erik quanstrom
!/bin/upas/marshal -s 'Re: [9fans] localization' -R /mail/fs/mbox/3100 9fans@9fans.net On Wed Apr 27 12:04:56 EDT 2011, dexen.devr...@gmail.com wrote: browsing through uriel's slides from fosdem 2006 [1], i see him mention Plan 9 lacks localization. what are this lists feelings

Re: [9fans] localization

2011-04-27 Thread Gabriel Diaz
no se puede 'written' is a common windows error, which shows the kind of problems they found. slds. gabi On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:14 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: !/bin/upas/marshal -s 'Re: [9fans] localization' -R /mail/fs/mbox/3100 9fans@9fans.net On Wed Apr 27 12:04:56

Re: [9fans] localization

2011-04-27 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
, 2011 at 6:14 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: !/bin/upas/marshal -s 'Re: [9fans] localization' -R /mail/fs/mbox/3100 9fans@9fans.net On Wed Apr 27 12:04:56 EDT 2011, dexen.devr...@gmail.com wrote: browsing through uriel's slides from fosdem 2006 [1], i see him mention Plan 9

Re: [9fans] localization

2011-04-27 Thread tlaronde
Hello, On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 05:59:08PM +0200, dexen deVries wrote: browsing through uriel's slides from fosdem 2006 [1], i see him mention Plan 9 lacks localization. what are this lists feelings on localization (both translation of strings and formatting of numbers, time etc.) of

Re: [9fans] localization

2011-04-27 Thread erik quanstrom
Those knowing how to program well are those who can deal with English easily. Writing with a latin script without diacritics makes the life easier too. Even the whole old story about 'char' holds a character can go just fine. It's also easier to deal with fixed-width fonts than with many

Re: [9fans] localization

2011-04-27 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 02:17:54PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: Those knowing how to program well are those who can deal with English easily. Writing with a latin script without diacritics makes the life easier too. Even the whole old story about 'char' holds a character can go just

Re: [9fans] localization

2011-04-27 Thread dexen deVries
On Wednesday 27 of April 2011 22:45:52 Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: But then comes the antialiasing, the subpixel rendering for LCDs (...) as a side note; antialiasing and sub-pixel rendering are moot with decent DPIs. for example, IBM T221, which runs at 204DPI -- about 9.2MPix on 22''. --

Re: [9fans] localization

2011-04-27 Thread erik quanstrom
It's also easier to deal with fixed-width fonts than with many typing fanciness, as it is easier to take types as fixed drawings than combine them as in arabic. both of these problems are quite easy to solve, since they can be solved once, and are solved problems in plan 9.

Re: [9fans] localization

2011-04-27 Thread Iruatã Souza
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:04 PM, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: Hello, On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 05:59:08PM +0200, dexen deVries wrote: browsing through uriel's slides from fosdem 2006 [1], i see him mention Plan 9 lacks localization. what are this lists feelings on localization (both

Re: [9fans] localization

2011-04-27 Thread smiley
Lluís Batlle i Rossell virik...@gmail.com writes: As for the localisation of software, regarding the implementation to allow comfortable localisation without much trade-offs, I can't suggest anything of value now. I think the Plan 9 solution to l10n (fix it once, fix it right) would be to