Hi Frank, > It appears that we will be able to include more than > just English in the > first release, but not all of the (39?) languages > that GNOME has been > localized for, at least not yet. The current target > for this release is > to include, at most, the eleven languages that the > installer will be > localized for. This means that we need only as one > language question > during startup, the installer will run in that > language, and that > language will be the primary language for the > installed system.
This doesn't seem to address the locale question which determines things like currency symbol, date, time and numerical representations. > > I will add a text-based language screen to the mockup > immediately > following the keyboard question. It will essentially > be the same as for > past installers, very similar in structure to the > keyboard question. > > Ideally the default language should be based on the > selected keyboard > when the default is obvious, i.e., if the keyboard is > Korean, then the > default language would be Korean. If the selected > keyboard indicates a > unsupported language then English is probably the > best language default. > > Looking past this release, I would really like to see > us use a version > of GRUB that allows the user to set the language and > keyboard through > F-key options on the GRUB screen and remove the > startup text messages we > are using this release. > > If/when the LiveCD can hold more languages than the > installer has been > localized for, the installer will need to add a new > Welcome screen that > allows the user to select the desired language for > installation - the > installer should be able to switch languages w/o > restarting. Are there any examples of installers/apps that can do this? We discussed this before for dwarf and the conclusion was that it's not feasible because there isn't a mechanism to switch languages on the fly in a running process. The text labels are automatically pulled from message catalogs based on the environment locale definitions. We used a boot strapping mechanism for dwarf which asked the language question, set up the locale environment and then executed the installer GUI. Thanks, Niall. The desktop > language would be the default language for the > installed system. Note > that is very easy for a user to change his/her > default language at login > should the default set by the installer not be the > one desired by the user. > > Frank > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-di > scuss -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
