On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:11:45AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > Just a small nitpicks... > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:17:01AM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > > Hi Raphael, > > > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 01:59:32PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > > > With language-specific Packages files, there is no size issue. > > > > About the only disadvantage I can think of is that the fallback > > language would have to be English, and not configurable - but surely > > that's acceptable. There is no encoding issue either, since AFAIK for > > well, it surely is less then optimal. Most Slovaks would want > fallback to Czech version, and I imagine vice versa is also true. > (and Ukrainians and Belorussians may want fallback to Russian - > and now you have an encoding issue as well) > > Of 8 friends of mine that are using debian, I know that: > 2 would want fallback hungarian->slovak->czech > 1 would want fallback lithuanian->slovak->czech->russian > 1 would want fallback slovak->hungarian->czech > the rest would want fallback slovak->czech > I prefer original English version > > nice statistics :-)
Sure, that would be great. But, AFAIK, no i18n mecanism can handle that for now. Feel free to fill a wishlist bug report against gettext. It may also be that I misunderstood your mail, and that this feature exists somewhere. If it's the case, please be patient with me, and give me some pointers. Thanks, Mt.