Subject: locale, nls and libc5...

From: Christophe Le Bars <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 96 18:15 MET DST

I try to study locale and nls support in Debian.

I think, a "libc5-nls" may be a good idea to provide
locale(1), localedef(1) and the libc5 message
catalogs in Dutch, French and German.

It's just a "make programs" in libc5/locale and
a "make fr nl de" in libc5/nls.

If Debian want to have locale, we need in fact this two
programs.

What do you think about that?

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From: Yves Arrouye <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 22:43:51 +0200

> What do you think about that?

Please, do that!
Yves.

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From: Michael Meskes <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 13:47:01 +0200 (MET DST)

> a "make fr nl de" in libc5/nls.

Not exactly. It has to be 'make SHARED= programs'. Please check the Intro
file on ftp://i44s10.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/linux/ctape

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From: Michael Gaertner <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 16:39:51 +0200 (MET DST)

> What do you think about that?
all non-english language-support will be appreciated by people like me and
you!!! 

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From: [email-masked] (David Engel)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 14:09:58 -0500 (CDT)

> What do you think about that?

I think we should definitely have an nls package, but I don't have
time to work on one right now.  Are you interested, Christophe?
Whatever we do, it shouldn't delay the release of 1.1.

David
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From: Christophe Le Bars <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 96 22:26 MET DST

> file on ftp://i44s10.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/linux/ctape

Precisely, it's just "make SHARED= programs" in libc5/locale and 
"make fr nl de" in libc5/nls/linux... Sorry... ;-)

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From: Christophe Le Bars <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 96 00:18 MET DST

> Whatever we do, it shouldn't delay the release of 1.1.

Ok, I'll work on it... And i'll not put anything in Incoming about
locale before the release of 1.1...

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From: [email-masked] (David Engel)
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 09:55:54 -0500 (CDT)

> locale before the release of 1.1...

I didn't mean that an nls package can't go in 1.1, just that it
shouldn't delay us from working on other parts of 1.1.  Since you've
already built the package, it can probably be included but that's
Bruce's call.

David