Red Hat install program translation progress

Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 13:00:43 -0300
From: Landon Boyd <landon@csuite.chebucto.ns.ca>
To: csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca
References: <19970501001703.05514@csuite.chebucto.ns.ca> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970501002123.21854T-100000@cs.dal.ca>
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On Thu, May 01, 1997 at 12:22:29AM -0300, David Trueman wrote:
> 
> This is great news, Landon.  Could you tell us how to proceed on this
> tomorrow?  i.e. where to find things

The source for the to-be-internationalized install program is in
landon:/usr/src/csboot/misc/src/install.intl.  I put the strings I had been
collecting in landon:/usr/src/csboot/src/installstrings.

I'm heading down to the office now.


> 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
> > 
> > ==================================================================
> > Landon Boyd                          landon@chebucto.ns.ca
> > Distribution Support Technician,     http://chebucto.ns.ca/~landon
> > Chebucto Community Net               902-455-4099hm 902-494-2449wk
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> > 
> > 
> 
>   David Trueman,
>     Systems Manager, Dalhousie Math, Stats and Computing Science
>     Technical Chair, Chebucto Community Net
> 

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Landon Boyd                          landon@chebucto.ns.ca
Distribution Support Technician,     http://chebucto.ns.ca/~landon
Chebucto Community Net               902-455-4099hm 902-494-2449wk
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