On my site at http://www.mariottini.net/freedos/english.html you can
find updated translations for most of the internationalized FreeDOS
utilities, and for the FreeDOS install system.
_New in release 3_
- Fixed some typos in the old translations
- At the beginning of every translation file is mentioned the version
of the utility used as a basis for the translation.
- Added translated strings for FASTHELP, MOVE and XCOPY.
Maintainers can include those files in the official distribution of
their utilities if they want to. If this is not possible, maybe creating
an "Italian language pack" can be of some help for users.
_New translation for the Install program/batch files_
- Updated and completed most translation files and added a few that
were missing.
- Changed to use the correct codepage (IBM CP 850/858) instead of the
wrong one they used before (windows 1252).
_Bugs and other issues_
1) I've found a bug in Move when it asks for confirmation to overwrite
(move.c in the prepare_move() function), it does:
scanf("%4s", &input)
thus reading only 4 characters from the input, then does
if (stricmp(input, kittengets(2,1,"N")) == 0)
that fails if the translated string is longer than 4 characters, like
the Italian word "Tutti" for "All" and "Nessuno" for "None".
I suggest to either test only the first 4 characters of the string or
raising the input limit to 8-10 characters. Maybe using only the first
character, like XCOPY does, is a good idea, provided that one can find
words with all different initials (something that for XCOPY was
difficult to find in Italian, I eventually found a compromise).
2) The choice of the language during installation doesn't work. See my
previous mail for more information.
3) Provided that the above works (it works changing manually some
environment variable), the actual install program is run in English
only. This is because NLSPATH is not changed to point to the right
directory before invoking TEXTINST.
4) Once the installation correctly terminates, the COMMAND.COM installed
is English-only. Since I've chosen Italian as a language, it should be
installed CMD-IT.EXE as COMMAND.COM.
_Suggestions_
IMHO non-English-speaking people would find difficult to get right the
first 3 choices to eventually get the language choice menu. Language
choosing should be done early in the install process, "as soon as
possible" can mean in the very first menu after the "boot:" prompt.
The language choice menu is big and bloated of main configurations and
uncommon sub-configurations, like the normal "Italy" numbered 12 and the
"Italy (NumPad ,)" numbered 72. I suggest dividing it in two parts, with
the most common choices in the first menu and the most specialized one
in the second.
_Questions_
I suppose someone is writing the new documentation for the 1.0 release.
I would like to translate also this document, is this something
feasible, or the 1.0 release will go out with Beta 9 READMEs?
Ciao
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