From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16144 invoked by uid 1002); 21 Oct 2003 16:44:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 21513 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2003 16:44:45 -0000 Message-ID: <006b01c397f4$2eddfb60$5c522b9b@TXOLAB27> From: "Luke-Jr" To: References: <200310200310.07424.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <200310211429.47438.pauldv@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:55:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] i18n herd X-Archives-Salt: 2a0c284e-0f80-4a65-a75f-ae038a6ad387 X-Archives-Hash: 9086f4ed591967b28560d439661c1380 (sorry for the toppost; at baka windoze PC right now and Outlook Express makes anything else impossible) m17n is multilingualization. Basicly, it's i18n, but having support for all languages without restarting the application. For example, a m17n-compatible text editor would let you mix languages within a single document (and possibly even let you change interface language on the fly, though that might need a restart of the app). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul de Vrieze" To: Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 8:29 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] i18n herd -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 October 2003 05:10, Luke-Jr wrote: > > > > a) Creating a general i18n herd for all i18n-related packages (the cjk > > herd could probably be merged into that). > > I'd much rather a m17n herd to focus on having all the languages work at > once... i18n is pretty undesirable, IMO, since it makes systems different. What is m17n? If it is about internationalisation it makes sense to include it in the project, but I leave that to the people who are going to do the work. > > > b) Creating specialized herds for each region/language group - ie. > > middle-east, cjk, anything else? > > That probably makes more sense since such stuff could probably be handled > better by those who understand the language. But then, some packages > involve every language so it might get a bit messy... That's why I suggested creating a project for all, and having herds for specific languages. Many issues are similar for any language != US English. The XIM specification is the same for any language. However, specific IM's are often only easilly maintained by people who use it (allready because the English docs of such things are either lacking or horrible in most cases) Paul - -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/lSa5bKx5DBjWFdsRAqJTAJ4xFMgfkm6th7FMaiPkRlj474ouRwCg2RPh rvZkffenL4EMm4GCsgzpog8= =GUsl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list