Re: cvs commit: www progress.html

hi,

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:54:15PM -0400, Antoine Beaupre wrote:

> > Just took a look and have a question: Why
> > Multilanguage support milstone is referencing to
> > Citrus project ? Citrus is NetBSD based project.
> > Or correctly to say FreeBSD based, but NetBSD oriented.
> 
> Ah. I wasn't aware of that. I thought Citrus was also FreeBSD-oriented.
It's not easy to understand because project has quite a little
english documents. They're mostly japanese.

> The milestone references the citrus project because it is the only thing 
> I know on the FreeBSD camp that intends to make a full BSD replacement 
> for gettext.
Yeah. This is one of main points in my TODO list -- checking & importing
Citrus's libintl (gettext library) to main source tree, but due to big
overload with real work it's not done yet. 

> > FreeBSD has enough infrastructure to i18n support And
> > actually has better multilanguage support comparing to
> > Net and Open BSDs (at least for single-byte charsets)
> 
> Maybe for charsets and such, but is there really a non-GPL gettext 
> implementation in FreeBSD? I don't think so.
It is. Almost. As soon as I get finished with testing Citrus's libintl. 

> I'm not worried about locale (dates, strings), but translation of output 
> language.
:-) You don't need to worry about locale because It Just Works.

> Note that I don't know much about all this language stuff. I've used 
> gettext a bit, but that's all.
>
> If you have better ideas, please tell me. :)


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