Esperanto in Slackware

Reedych · 07-25-2017, 03:32 AM

If you are not an esperantist, I think it will not be very useful for you

What is Esperanto?

I made a package glibc-i18n-eo with UTF-8 esperanto support. I'm not pro in glibc and now i can not make better package. Not all apps are translated to esperanto and they will be in english.

For esperanto support, you need do two steps:

Download the package from yandex-disk or from my repo
Install it
sudo nano /etc/profile.d/lang.sh
Do this in the file: export LANG=eo_XX.UTF-8
And do this: export LC_COLLATE=C
Restart your computer

Done

Didier Spaier · 07-25-2017, 05:28 AM

Thanks for providing this package.

However, as is I wouldn't try it, because the source file (as a readable text) of the locale definition is not included in the package, thus it is impossible to check the compiled ones. Why not provide it (in /usr/share/i18n/locales as its siblings).

Also, why not submit this locale definition to the glibc project? That would certainly be useful.

Then consider setting the territory to a registered value instead of XX. As an example interlingua (whose aim is similar) has the locale definition /usr/share/i18n/locales.ia_FR.

For instance /usr/share/i18n/locales.eo_RU as well as usr/share/i18n/locales.eo_PL would be OK, but feel free to choose eo_KZ if you prefer

Didier Spaier · 07-25-2017, 12:20 PM

The CLDR provides, among other things, locale definitions in an XML format as Releases/Downloads.

At time of writing the most recent release is tagged 31.0.1. In the main repo I see these locale definitions for Esperanto: eo.xml associated with this file.

Caveats:

This seems to be a draft, as you can see comparing it with kk.xml. Maybe that's why there is still no glibc version available (in POSIX format plus extensions)
It is in an XML format that needs to be converted to the format of the files in /usr/share/i18n/locales.

Maybe the tools that I have found here after deep digging can be useful. I didn't try them. Of course you will need java to compile then use them.

Good luck.

Reedych · 07-26-2017, 05:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

Thanks for providing this package.

However, as is I wouldn't try it, because the source file (as a readable text) of the locale definition is not included in the package, thus it is impossible to check the compiled ones. Why not provide it (in /usr/share/i18n/locales as its siblings).

Also, why not submit this locale definition to the glibc project? That would certainly be useful.

Then consider setting the territory to a registered value instead of XX. As an example interlingua (whose aim is similar) has the locale definition /usr/share/i18n/locales.ia_FR.

For instance /usr/share/i18n/locales.eo_RU as well as usr/share/i18n/locales.eo_PL would be OK, but feel free to choose eo_KZ if you prefer

This: https://pastebin.com/h7b5qyud?

Sorry, I'm noob in glibc and I built this locale using glibc slackbuild, but the whole glibc building has failed. In next 15.0 release i will make better package.

Didier Spaier · 07-26-2017, 06:31 AM

Well, I dug a little more and the locale definitions for esperanto (eo) are already included in the package glibc-i18n (version 2.25) now shipped in Slackware-current.

I assume that this package can safely replace the package shipped in Slackware version 14.2 but didn't check yet.

Anyway, thanks for bringing our attention to Esperanto.

Reedych · 07-27-2017, 02:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

Well, I dug a little more and the locale definitions for esperanto (eo) are already included in the package glibc-i18n (version 2.25) now shipped in Slackware-current.

I assume that this package can safely replace the package shipped in Slackware version 14.2 but didn't check yet.

Anyway, thanks for bringing our attention to Esperanto.

Wut? Really esperanto in vanilla 2.25? Thank you for inform.