Subject: Re: uwscons [was Re: sysinst from arabic]
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Mike M. Volokhov <mishka@apk.od.ua>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/06/2005 10:32:57
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 23:21:04 +0200 (CEST)
Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, kamel derouiche wrote:
> > i would like work in arabisation of sysinst and i
> > would like that one perssonne he orient
> >
> > me i thnik that arabisation sysinst will can for me
> > generalisation using netbsd
>
> Have you looked at uwscons, how well it supports arabic (right to left
> writing, charsets, character encodings)?
>
> How about locales - so far sysinst uses mostly ISO8859-1 encoding as far
> as I understand, and what you want is something wildly different.
>
> I'm afraid a lot of work needs to be put into the infrastructure here
> before you can start the translation work.
Seems that's true.
But on the other hand, such work fairly possible on uwscons rather
standard wscons, isn't it?
--
Mishka.