Re: [gNewSense-users] transl

[Karl Goetz]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:40:26 -0800
Ramsin Savra <address@hidden> wrote:

(note: Ramsin accidentally sent this only to me).

> Hello Karl and all,
> 

Sending this back to the list so everyone can see and comment :)

> 
> I'm new to this forum and just looking for an opportunity to get
> involved in open source projects. I was told by joining the forum I
> can help open source community (I hope!) so will appreciate it if you
> or somebody could give me some insight into this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ramsin
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Karl Goetz <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:40:51 +0100
> > address@hidden wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> As some of us are interested to translate the gNS site in russian,
> >> i think we should considerate moving to the 2.2 version of PmWiki,
> >> as "[...] the 2.2.x versions of PmWiki have much better Unicode
> >> support for more than a year now. It is highly recommended to use
> >> a recent stable for an international UTF-8 wiki." [1] ("[The gNS]
> >> site is running pmwiki-2.1.27 version" [2]).
> >
> > I'm willing to look into this, but not until 3 other things have
> > happened:
> >
> > - the problem in "Software Sources" is resolved
> >   (cause known, fix not)
> > - the kernel packages build correctly again.
> >   (cause may be known, fix may be known)
> > - 2.2 is released.
> >   (when those two are fixed...)
> >
> > So, this may be waiting a while (sorry...)
> > kk
> >
> >>
> >> If we want our website to be translated in such languages as
> >> russian, chinese, japanese, korean, arabic, etc, we have to move to
> >> unicode support because edition without it is a real headache, see
> >> [3] and [4] for an easy explanation of what i mean.
> >>
> >> Christophe
> >>
> >> [1] http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/UTF-8
> >> [2] http://www.gnewsense.org/index.php?n=PmWiki.PmWiki
> >> [3] http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Main:ru/HomePage?action=source
> >> [4] http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Main:cn/HomePage?action=source
> >>
> >


-- 
Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian user / gNewSense contributor
http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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