I guess that I would start with English only and work with the community
to fix their I18n support so that you are prepared to address other
locales in a sane manner when you either rev this or the bugs start to
roll in for it not working in *pick a favorite locale*.
-Norm
Daria Mehra wrote:
> Norm Jacobs wrote:
>
>> Daria Mehra wrote:
>>
>>> My next FOSS project is "webalizer", a web server log analyzer tool,
>>> which comes with support for multiple languages besides English. The
>>> language support must be compiled in, i.e. you get to "configure
>>> --with-language=<language>". From what I know, the SFW consolidation
>>> tends to deliver a single package per project, and for webalizer the
>>> package would contain an English-only binary. Is there a way or a
>>> need to deliver the additional languages support?
>>>
>>>
>> The PAC big rules require French, German, Japanese, Simplified
>> Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Korean, Traditional Chinese. You
>> might try and ask this on g11n-interest at sun.com. As far as packaging
>> goes, unless the package becomes really big, I wouldn't separate it out.
>>
>>
> I didn't get any response from g11n-interest. Let me clarify that
> webalizer can be configured only with one language at a time, and the
> resulting binary will produce output in that language, i.e. if it's
> built --with-language=french, then all reports/output will be in French
> and not in English. Thus if I need to deliver support for those 9
> languages per PAC rules, then SUNWwebalizer package would have to
> contain 10 webalizer binaries (English and the others). Somehow I doubt
> that's the desired solution...
>
> -- daria
>
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