Re: Request for Clue: i18n of fortune-esque things

2003-04-29 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030423 23:38]: > I just had the idea of translating these hints myself and thus I talked > with Grisu about using the DDTP server for this purpose. He promised > to think about this ... Well, did I missed something, hasn't anybody translated them, yet? I was

Re: Request for Clue: i18n of fortune-esque things

2003-04-26 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 07:57:00PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote: > > > That's more or less what I was hoping - however, checking > > /usr/share/doc/fortune-mod doesn't show any references to 'language', or > > any obvious references to i18n or l10n, at least

Re: Request for Clue: i18n of fortune-esque things

2003-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote: > That's more or less what I was hoping - however, checking > /usr/share/doc/fortune-mod doesn't show any references to 'language', or > any obvious references to i18n or l10n, at least on stable (my chroots are > currently down due to one machine having some

Re: Request for Clue: i18n of fortune-esque things

2003-04-24 Thread Joel Baker
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:35:41AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote: > > > larger sense, is whether there is a way to have the translations available > > in some easily selectable format. > I think the i18ned fortune makes this simple. That's more or less what I

Re: Request for Clue: i18n of fortune-esque things

2003-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote: > larger sense, is whether there is a way to have the translations available > in some easily selectable format. I think the i18ned fortune makes this simple. > I suppose that simply having multiple text/index files with a language > designation as part of t

Re: Request for Clue: i18n of fortune-esque things

2003-04-24 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:38:32PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote: > > > What I was wondering is whether there is a way to do translations of > > the fortune data, without having to have 'fortunes-debian-hints-' > > packages. Granted, I probably won't be able t

Re: Request for Clue: i18n of fortune-esque things

2003-04-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote: > What I was wondering is whether there is a way to do translations of > the fortune data, without having to have 'fortunes-debian-hints-' > packages. Granted, I probably won't be able to do much useful about > translating them, myself, but I'd like to at lea

Request for Clue: i18n of fortune-esque things

2003-04-23 Thread Joel Baker
So, as some of you may remember, after a discussion on debian-devel about wanting some way to give a "tip of the day" or similar functionality for new (and sometimes used.. er... experienced) Debian users, I did an ITP for fortunes-debian-hints. It's now in testing (or so the PTS would lead me to b