[Freedos-devel] Installer NLS Questions

[Emir S. <bit...@me...>]

Hello everyone,

I have been making the final tests for the installer in Turkish, and have some questions below.

Also, the installation process seems to be pretty slow on QEMU. I have used qemu-system-i386 -m 32m -drive file=drivec.img,media=disk,format=raw -drive file=FD13LIVE.iso,media=cdrom -boot order=d command. Any suggestions for improving the speed are welcome.

I am also attaching the videos of my installation[1]. I understand that letters with accents and diacritics might shift a little bit, but the Turkish letter ı also seems to shift. It would be nice to improve this a bit. There is also a small visual glitch before changing the installer language into Turkish (see the video).

I will send a patch once I have improved the needed areas.

Whilst checking, I have noticed that I am not sure about how all the failure messages are handled, I could not find the frame width for it. I guess they are displayed full screen. If so, please ignore.

There is another issue with the keyboard layout name definition files. I would like to make some corrections, like some countries are defined by their names instead of the language name (e. g. Brazil, Holland, Denmark etc.). Also some layouts are not clear, like which French is the AZERTY one? I want to proceed with the changes but I am not sure how to handle the encoding. I can modify them to UTF-8, and make corrections in all languages, would that be okay? I think we can change all languages before the release. I can proofread Turkish and Russian and send a public patch for everyone to see after changing the languages.

Also, it was a while ago, but I was also able to start the Jerome’s new installer in Turkish. How to start that and from where? I would like to test that one as well.

I would appreciate any help (especially Jerome and thraex) :). I see that thraex already made some corrections (thank you!).

Once the issues are resolved, I will send a patch.

Happy new year to everyone!
Best regards,
Emir

[1] https://wetransfer.com/downloads/4aa0a35db5a58a794c82a588448bb11f20211231093146/527256527e415ca82339a3073feea36820211231093235/4b975c