discuss: Re: Last update pre-1997 [was: reviewing all the howtos]
Subject:
Re: Last update pre-1997 [was: reviewing all the howtos]
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
29 Nov 2003 00:01:30 -0000
Message-Id: <20031128225057.GA800@lafn.org>
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:10:36PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> I volunteer to write the next Spanish HOWTO... IF AND ONLY IF one or
> two people will be so kind as to volunteer to teach me the content
> (UTF-8 versus the old way, how to get accents in several apps, etc.).
I would suggest that you also cover (or use) the Latin0 (ISO 8859-15)
character set. UTF-8 can be quite inefficient by using 2 bytes per
character instead of one (as in Latin0).
> My procedure would be to write the Spanish HOWTO first in English,
> such that helpers can actually help, then quickly translate to Spanish
> once the translation is the only step left to take.
My suggestion for the language HOWTOs would be to have one HOWTO on
Foreign Languages (which translates into "non-English Languages"). It
would cover installing the various character sets and UTF-8. It would
also cover remapping the keyboard (perhaps including doing it for dumb
terminals).
Then there would then be a HOWTO for each language which would cover
what the Foreign-Language-HOWTO doesn't. Some people would be able to
get by with just the Foreign-Language-HOWTO. But for languages where
there are a few different character set options such as Russian, then a
HOWTO for the specific language (or language group) would be needed.
David Lawyer
> Comments, suggestions, feedback?
