Falem meus amigos!! Developers principalmente, leiam essa mensagem. Fala de um pacote chamado language-env que tem possibilidade de configurar facilmente os locales do cara seria algo como o task-lang-pt que o Macan tinha sugerido, creio eu... deviamos dar uma olhada e suportar a nossa Lingua nesse pacote se for interessante... []s! KoV
----- Forwarded message from Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Please check 'language-env' package. It has configuration database for German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Thai. I think the most significant difference between your approach and my 'language-env' approach is global setting (yours) or per-user (mine). Though your approach is more straightforward and easy, mine is more extensible. People speaking different languages can share a machine. However, I can imagine a future configuration system which a user can choose global setting (for personal machine) or per-user setting (for shared machine). Please check 'language-env'. I think you will find how complex configurations are needed for 'exotic' languages such as Japanese. Though I don't know about configuration of _console_ (because we cannot configure Linux console for Japanese at all), I think the ideal console will be sensible to LC_CTYPE locale. If there is a small software which loads proper font for LC_CTYPE, we can invoke it from ~/.bashrc or so on. I can imagine the software can automatically invoke UTF-8 mode when needed (of course the software checks it from LC_CTYPE locale). If you are interested in multibyte language, check 'kon2', 'jfbterm', and 'hztty' packages. Input method is a problem, too. Some complex languages such as Japanese and Chinese need a separate input method. (Keymap is not sufficient. Can you imagine a keyboard with thousands of keys? Even if there were, it would be difficult to use.) Though X Window System has its standard for input method (XIM), there are no standard for console. Thus, I can hardly imagine united configuration (choosing) tool for input method. The document included in 'language-env' describes about Japanese input methods. Though I am not familiar to keymaps, I think it should depends on what hardware (i.e., keyboard) the system has. Then it must be global setting. Fortunately, the current Debian installer asks about keyboard. Can any softwares which need keymap be configured to use that information? --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://surfchem0.riken.go.jp/~kubota/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov /******************************************************* *http://www.doctorkov.cjb.net * *GPG Key: http://www.geocities.com/dockov/html/pgp.html* *irc.debian.org -> #debian-br UIN: 20766822 * *******************************************************/
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