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Re: [MiNT] International question

Hi Draco:

Or, you could have none of the messages pre-loaded, and require to load a
message file (which is how Os/2 works), this would allow swedish,
japanese, alien, whatever.  This could even just be a text file.  This of
course has the problem of if no msg file is supplied.  In this case, it
could just spit out like "message #234". (as opposed to crashing).

Or, you could just have different compilations of MiNT, one for each
language.  I think the above approach is better because users can change
it (the msg file) themselves.

There is one advantage to having all of the languages compiled into the
kernal though:
different users could concievably have different languages.

-- noah

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz wrote:

> 
> > > I would be pleased if I could put into the kernel the following message:
> > > 
> > > "Display the boot menu?"
> > 
> > Swedish:
> > 
> > Visa bootmenyn?
> 
> Yes, thanks, but... MiNT does not support Swedish. To fix that, we also
> would need to supply other messages, like "FATAL ERROR. You have to reboot
> the system" and so on.
> 
> Despite that, generally, I would like to change this somehow. For now the
> international support in MiNT means that there are as many versions of all
> messages compiled into, as much languages we support. Since we use one at
> once, the rest of messages just waste memory.
> 
> So I was thinking about changing all this so that only English messages
> could be compiled into, and if one wishes to have MiNT speaking another
> language, the local version of the messages could be soft loaded. Sort of
> RSC file, but simpler a lot.
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> --
> Konrad M.Kokoszkiewicz
> mail: draco@atari.org
> http://draco.atari.org
> 
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> ** aut servit humiliter, aut superbe dominatur (Liv. XXIV,25)
> *************************************************************
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> ** albo bezczelnie sie panoszy.
> 
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