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[Morphix-devel] Internationalisation..

[Robert R. <ri...@li...>]

Hello List,

I came up with a rather pailness way to handle internationalisation, at 
lease as fgar as keyboards are concerned.

Linux stores the keyboard mapping i the following file:

/etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz

and the layout for X11 is in

/etc/X11/XF86Config-4

now, if we took those two files out of the Base/BaseX system, and made 
them modules, adapting keyboards would be childs' play (just load the 
swedish-keyboard-minimodule if you need a swedish keyboard)

Of ocurse, this odes not yet allow to ask at runtime, but that could 
ocme later


What do you think?

Btw: greatly rteduced the size of the PDF file I put up.

Robert

Re: [Morphix-devel] Internationalisation..

[Jose C. G. S. <jo...@ja...>]

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 06:11:16PM +0200, Robert Ribnitz wrote:
> Hello List,
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> I came up with a rather pailness way to handle internationalisation, at=
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> lease as fgar as keyboards are concerned.
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> Linux stores the keyboard mapping i the following file:
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> and the layout for X11 is in
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> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
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> now, if we took those two files out of the Base/BaseX system, and made=20
> them modules, adapting keyboards would be childs' play (just load the=20
> swedish-keyboard-minimodule if you need a swedish keyboard)
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> Of ocurse, this odes not yet allow to ask at runtime, but that could=20
> ocme later

  This is something that Metadistros loader is aiming to allow, asking
  some of such questions at init time if the person who has made the
  distro thinks that it's necesary.

  I think that this is a nice thing to have.

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  Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
     js...@de...

Re: [Morphix-devel] Internationalisation..

[Alex de L. <ale...@xs...>]

Hey lists and Jose,

At first, i thought that i18n could indeed be done with minimodules, however
adding a minimodule is still not all too easy... yet. Instead, I was thinking
about making a simple i18n application, in the same manner as the networkconf
and xconf tools i was playing around with. In cases where certain extra packages
are needed for a locale, using minimodules might be the only way, but, when the
locale already is available for use, a loadkey-frontend might be a better idea.
Never have been a fan of prompting the user too, i might add...

Anyway, don't forget that simply ripping out XF86Config-4 and throwing a
modified version into a module isn't the way to go, as it is generated at
boottime. A simple line of shell that forces certain settings seems a better
way, this could be done after XF86Config-4 is generated. 

I'm still wrestling with how to solve i18n: minimodules, settings or a
combination. All will work, but the real question is: what is most suitable?

Anyway, it's good to exchange some ideas on this,

Cheers,
Alex


Quoting Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jo...@ja...>:

> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 06:11:16PM +0200, Robert Ribnitz wrote:
> > Hello List,
> > 
> > I came up with a rather pailness way to handle internationalisation, at 
> > lease as fgar as keyboards are concerned.
> > 
> > Linux stores the keyboard mapping i the following file:
> > 
> > /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
> > 
> > and the layout for X11 is in
> > 
> > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> > 
> > now, if we took those two files out of the Base/BaseX system, and made 
> > them modules, adapting keyboards would be childs' play (just load the 
> > swedish-keyboard-minimodule if you need a swedish keyboard)
> > 
> > Of ocurse, this odes not yet allow to ask at runtime, but that could 
> > ocme later
> 
>   This is something that Metadistros loader is aiming to allow, asking
>   some of such questions at init time if the person who has made the
>   distro thinks that it's necesary.
> 
>   I think that this is a nice thing to have.
> 
> -- 
>   Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
>      js...@de...
> 


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