My project wish-list for the next 12 months
Jose M Rodriguez
josemi at freebsd.jazztel.es
Fri Dec 3 01:50:54 PST 2004
El Jueves, 2 de Diciembre de 2004 00:19, Scott Long escribió:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:10:57PM -0700, Ryan Sommers wrote:
> >>Another issue I had with the dfly installer was one point I believe
> >> needs to be central to any next-gen installer.
> >> Internationalisation.
> >
> > Careful not to pile on so many wishes that achieving anything
> > becomes impossible. Our current installer doesn't do this, so it's
> > not a hard requirement that a better installer should.
> >
> > Kris
>
> Internationalization is actually quite important, and is not easy to
> bolt on after the fact but is fairly easy to program to once the core
> is in place. The fact that sysinstall doesn't have it makes it no
> less important. Now this isn't a reason to reject the DFly work, but
> it could certainly be a good area for someone to contribute.
>
> Scott
>
Sure. I can confirm this. But this issue must be take with care.
1.- This is an overall effort that, IMHO, must begin with a real i18n
ports work. Actual ports doesn't have a well defined i18n behavior.
2.- this covers several unrelated issues:
- i18n, lang related issues. iso8859-1, unicode, arabic ...
- l10n, locale related issues (country specific).
- base system oper (try hack arround loader with a foreing keyboard).
About the base system, I have really bad experiences with i18n/locale
support in boot/system works. This must be a low priority task.
But I'll be really glad to see some basic foreing keyboard/console
support in boot/loader as:
boot> keyb sp
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josemi
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