Re: Reasons why package central approach to handling translations may be suboptimal

2001-09-07 Thread Richard Atterer
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:10:10PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: no, don't re-invent the wheel. This all make gettext. We don't need patch apt, dpkg, other toold this way. We must only use a old, nice and tested tool: gettext. Nice, I wasn't aware it solves the encoding problem as well! The

Re: Reasons why package central approach to handling translations may be suboptimal

2001-09-07 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:47:36AM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:10:10PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: no, don't re-invent the wheel. This all make gettext. We don't need patch apt, dpkg, other toold this way. We must only use a old, nice and tested tool:

Reasons why package central approach to handling translations may be suboptimal

2001-09-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hello, I have been reading the DDTS thread, and seeing that it was resolving into a each package should maintain their translation. I would like to present what I think may be problematic in that approach : 1. This results in filing random bugs in BTS in random manner. Telling the submitter

Re: Reasons why package central approach to handling translations may be suboptimal

2001-09-06 Thread Richard Atterer
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 03:42:00PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: I have been reading the DDTS thread, and seeing that it was resolving into a each package should maintain their translation. I would like to present what I think may be problematic in that approach : 1. This results in filing

Re: Reasons why package central approach to handling translations may be suboptimal

2001-09-06 Thread Michael Bramer
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 03:31:49PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 03:42:00PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: I have been reading the DDTS thread, and seeing that it was resolving into a each package should maintain their translation. I would like to present what I think