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Thanks to Ingemar KARLSSON Slint is now being translated to Swedish. Welcome on board, Ingemar!
Default locale settings for Swedish follow, unless someone objects:
LANG: sv_SE.utf8
kernel keymap: sv-latin1
bitmap font: terminus-1* (codepage 1252)
TrueType font: DejaVu (includes the 68 glyphs needed to display characters in Swedish)
XkbLayout: se
XkbVariant: none needed
I take the occasion to thank Diantre and StreamThreader who updated our webpages in Spanish and Ukrainian.
Oh, and I'm disappointed that so few people have downloaded one of our full installers yet: only 105 downloads in total at time of writing.
Any idea/suggestion/initiative to win more users is warmly welcome.
I will upload full installers for versions 13.37 and 14.0 real soon now.
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Last edited by Didier Spaier; 11-05-2014 at 03:00 AM.
Reason: Put the tip at the bottom
Well, I contacted Didier about Serbian language, but there is a small show stoper. One thing I want to do is to use utf8, but kbd package keymap for Serbian uses iso-8859-5. I know that some guys from an earlier Fedora localization project did an utf8 keymap, but silly enough they didn't send it upstream. And it wasn't as complete as the old one. I haven't yet looked into kbd docs, but it will help if you can point me to any additional info or docs.
Bojan, if you do that, we could ship your keymap in the installer, and also in the Slint package so that it be put in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty in the installed system at end of installation.
Not having an utf8 encoded sr_RS locale won't hurt in that case, right?
Oh, and I almost forgot: yes, bobzilla (aka bocke on Transifex) will translate Slackware installer & tools to Serbian. Thanks and welcome on board, Bojan!
PS If we eventually decide to include also the Latin script for Serbian you won't have to do twice the job as we can use recode-sr-latin as a buit-in filter, allowing us to simply write msgfilter recode-sr-latin to convert the sr.po files to sr@latin.po
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 11-11-2014 at 12:36 PM.
Bojan, if you do that, we could ship your keymap in the installer, and also in the Slint package
Thank you.
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Not having an utf8 encoded sr_RS locale won't hurt in that case, right?
Well, it might. Xkb keymap is utf8. There is no an alternative one for iso-8859-5.
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Oh, and I almost forgot: yes, bobzilla (aka bocke on Transifex) will translate Slackware installer & tools to Serbian. Thanks and welcome on board, Bojan!
Thanks. I might be bringing a person or two with me. But don't hold your breath. Might not happen.
Thanx Bormant, I will try it out today or tomorrow.
@Didier: I think I managed to gather a small team of volunteers. You've already got the request from drummer on Transiflex, but there is also a good chance we might get another member soon.
@Didier: I think I managed to gather a small team of volunteers. You've already got the request from drummer on Transiflex, but there is also a good chance we might get another member soon.
Good!
I just approved drummer's request. Thanks for joining and welcome on board, Rade!
FYI team coordinators can also manage joining requests on Transifex.
I've made available an USB Slint installer using Syslinux 6.03 for BIOS + UEFI booting for testing purposes only, if you are interested please see this post and test it, but then report your findings in the relevant thread to stay on topic here.
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 11-13-2014 at 05:32 AM.
man pages in Swedish, new translators, updated web pages, more to come.
Thanks to Ingemar KARLSSON the man pages shipped in packages pkgtools and slckpkg are now available in Swedish. Updated Slint packages containing them are available.
Kudret Emre aka overbite has joined the Turkish team and already updated most web pages in that language. Also, rapha joined the Serbian team. Welcome on board, Kudret and rapha!
A Slint thread in Serbian language has been started by bobzilla.
Las but not least, Ingemar will have soon completed the translation of the Slint installers and of the admin screens to Swedish. Stay tuned!
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 11-30-2014 at 05:08 AM.
Reminder: to install or update the localized admin scripts and man pages, just type:
Code:
upgradepkg --install-new <slint package>
As you can see in the attached picture, Slackware is now available in 13 languages & variants. And there is room for two more, not even changing the greeting screen's layout
So, what language will be next?
Meanwhile, not to stay idle I will try to make Slackware more easily accessible to blind folks.
The first step will be to ship brltty in the Slint installers and set it in the installed systems accordingly, then if all goes well we'll do the same with speakup.
Ooops! I just realized that on the greeting screen I wrote the code 16 instead of 17 for Spanish (Latin America), so please type 17 not 16 to get it. I will fix the installers ASAP, sorry for the inconvenience.
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 11-30-2014 at 06:47 AM.
Reason: Ooops added.
Will it be easy to reuse all the translations for Slackware14.2 (or whatever is called)?
Yes Pedro, thanks for asking:
If we use them "as is", only the new messages (probably very few if I may extrapolate from previous upgrades) will be displayed in US English.
I plan to upload on Transifex a new POT file containing only the new messages to be translated, but will wait until Pat provides a release candidate or at least a β, to avoid useless updates of the new translations.
The new translated messages will be merged with the (kept) previous ones through a simple msgmerge command. This will be transparent for the translators.
I don't know yet what will be the name of the new version, but I wouldn't bet for whatever
Oh, and follow-up from my previous post: all installers now include a fixed greeting message.
Have fun!
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 11-30-2014 at 12:24 PM.
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