Re: I18N Progress, Plans, and Proposals

2000-10-22 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20001022 10:55], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I seriously advice against directly importing the Citrus code. It is very good work and a lot will be borrowed, but on my latest investigations it also made a lot of unnecessary and gratuitous changes. which part looks

Re: I18N Progress, Plans, and Proposals

2000-10-20 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 08:38:47PM +0200, Johan Granlund scribbled: | On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Michael C . Wu wrote: | At the BSDCon I18N BOF, we discussed several things that could/should | happen with the future of I18N(internationalization) in FreeBSD. | We would like some inputs and comments

Re: I18N Progress, Plans, and Proposals

2000-10-20 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 01:16:12PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard scribbled: |The advantages are : | A. Easy bug reporting by users. (e.g. "I have error 2398423") | B. I18N error messages | | Let me just say, as someone who's done "escalation tech support" for | major ISVs (the people who

I18N Progress, Plans, and Proposals

2000-10-19 Thread Michael C . Wu
At the BSDCon I18N BOF, we discussed several things that could/should happen with the future of I18N(internationalization) in FreeBSD. We would like some inputs and comments regarding the following: * Moving to message catalogue style error messages for the kernel and userland. (AIX style)

Re: I18N Progress, Plans, and Proposals

2000-10-19 Thread Jing-Tang Keith Jang
On 10/19/00, Michael C . Wu wrote: 3. Itojun mentioned that the CITRUS Japanese people will be able to import the wchar* and libxpg4 changes soon. This is great! I believe many developers have spent too much unnecessary time dealing with wchar.h. Is there a timeline yet? BTW, are there

Re: I18N Progress, Plans, and Proposals

2000-10-19 Thread Terry Lambert
* Moving to message catalogue style error messages for the kernel and userland. (AIX style) Each time the system outputs an error either from the kernel or userland, the error message is a formatted alphanumerica string mapped to verbose error messages. The error messages can be

Re: I18N Progress, Plans, and Proposals

2000-10-19 Thread Johan Granlund
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Michael C . Wu wrote: At the BSDCon I18N BOF, we discussed several things that could/should happen with the future of I18N(internationalization) in FreeBSD. We would like some inputs and comments regarding the following: SNIP 2. Needing a graphics console to display

Re: I18N Progress, Plans, and Proposals

2000-10-19 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 05:17:38PM +, Terry Lambert scribbled: | * Moving to message catalogue style error messages for the kernel and |userland. (AIX style) Each time the system outputs an error |either from the kernel or userland, the error message is a |formatted

Re: I18N Progress, Plans, and Proposals

2000-10-19 Thread Motoyuki Konno
Hi, "Michael C . Wu" [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: 1. The future of sysinstall (or whatever should replace it) The future installer/management utility should be able to handle arbitrary character sets. In other words, it should be able to display Chinese/Japanese/etc. with user

Re: I18N Progress, Plans, and Proposals

2000-10-19 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
3. Itojun mentioned that the CITRUS Japanese people will be able to import the wchar* and libxpg4 changes soon. the code is there, but as i talked, we need more manpower for babysitting. cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/anoncvs/citrus co -P xpg4dl itojun To

Re: I18N Progress, Plans, and Proposals

2000-10-19 Thread Jordan Hubbard
The advantages are : A. Easy bug reporting by users. (e.g. "I have error 2398423") B. I18N error messages Let me just say, as someone who's done "escalation tech support" for major ISVs (the people who get called whenever front-line tech support is confronted with a "I have error