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Linux Internationalization Project continues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Feb 25 11:43:27 1995
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 17:24:06 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
Subject: Linux Internationalization Project continues
From: Jochen.Hein@informatik.tu-clausthal.de (Jochen Hein)
Keywords: Internationalization, locales, languages, NLS, localization
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Organization: ?
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.development.system
Hi everybody,
unlike Patrick D'Cruze who started this project I can't state
that english is my native language. This and the wish to support
Linux in Germany made me joining the "Linux Internationalization
Project". Patrick asked me to continue his work on the
Internationalization Project because he has no time to work on
this project any longer.
The project itself has a couple of goals:
- implement and document a complete locale-support in libc:
Lots of things are implemented now, but if you have access to
POSIX and X/Open Portability Guide, you may be able to help us
a lot. Ulrich Drepper (drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu) is working on
this for both linux-libc and gnu-libc.
- implement and document the programs required by POSIX:
You'll find the first public release on ftp.tu-clausthal.de in
/pub/systems/Linux/SLT/nls or its mirror ftp.gwdg.de in
/pub/linux/install/slt/nls as nlsutils-0.5.tar.gz. Read the
README at the same place to get more informations.
Ulrich is now modifying the utils to match his changes in the
libc.
- make programmers use the locale-specific functions instead of
self-made ones and use message-catalog instead of hardcoded
messages. This has been started with the locale-tutorial.
you'll find it on sunsite.unc.edu in
/pub/Linux/utils/nls/catalogs/Incoming as
locale-tutorial-0.8.txt.gz, thanks to Patrick D'Cruze.
There is a french translation avaiable at ftp.ibp.fr in
/pub/linux/french/docs/locale.fr, thanks to Eric DUMAS
(dumas@emi.u-bordeaux.fr).
- translate messages of internationalized porgrams:
Our goal is to form teams to translate messages and
documentation into other languages than english.
For that task there has been formed a german group (Linux
Internationalization - Deutschland [LInDe]) that
translates messages and man-pages into german and also provides
support for german linux-users. They also work in the
internationalization parts. Main coordinator is again Ulrich
Drepper.
- co-working with the GNU-people in the internationalization
effort. The GNU-people are also interested in
internationalization of their packages and Linux uses this
most of this packages, so we hope to benefit both usergroups.
Support for languages other than English will only help Linux
spread even further and encourage others to use and recommend
Linux.
If you are familar with the NLS (national language support) or
like to join the effort, you may subscribe you to our mailing
list. I've appended the instructions at the end of the message.
Thanks to Linux International for providing the mailing-list.
Have fun
Jochen
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