Red Hat install program translation progress

Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 00:22:29 -0300
From: David Trueman <david@cs.dal.ca>
To: csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca
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This is great news, Landon.  Could you tell us how to proceed on this
tomorrow?  i.e. where to find things

On Thu, 1 May 1997, Landon Boyd wrote:

> Here are the highlights of my evening:
> 
> We have about 200k of space to work with on the floppy.  This is more than
> I had expected and should be enough for the internationalized install
> program and the .mo file.
> 
> I've extracted 175 strings from the install procedure which are likely
> to be displayed in a normal install.  I don't think it will take long to
> markup the strings in the source files and generate the .po file.
> 
> I tried using gettext on one string in the install program, put the .mo
> file on the floppy and made sure that the LANG was set appropriately.
> The string _WAS_ displayed in french when I booted using the disk (good).
> 
> 
> Landon
> 
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> Landon Boyd                          landon@chebucto.ns.ca
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> 

  David Trueman,
    Systems Manager, Dalhousie Math, Stats and Computing Science
    Technical Chair, Chebucto Community Net



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