Who's in charge of Localization (L10N) in NetBSD?

Hi there:

I would help to add the eu_ES-ISO8859-1 (basque) locale in
NetBSD 
system. I know that it's possible to have -at least- cal,
date and such 
in Spanish, so I suppose it would't be so hard if somebody
points me in 
the right direction.


Thank you very much for your time and excuse the OT.



Bixen







P.S.: Please, cc: me or mail me directly, I'm not a
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hi,

> Who's in charge of Localization (L10N) in NetBSD?

maybe it's me.

> I would help to add the eu_ES-ISO8859-1 (basque) locale
in NetBSD
system.

thank you, i think daemon can learn basque

first, we don't have basque message catalog for
strerror(3).
the translation of C.msg to basque will be great help for
us.
    http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/nls/C
.msg

and sysinst (8) too.
    http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/
distrib/utils/sysinst/msg.mbr.en
    http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/d
istrib/utils/sysinst/msg.mi.en
    http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb
.cgi/src/distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/i386/msg.md.en
    (and other architecture...)


second, eu_ES-ISO8859-1/LC_CTYPE is already supported in
NetBSD-current.
    http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/s
rc/share/locale/ctype/Makefile#rev1.22

if you want use it NetBSD-4, try following steps:

    $ cvs co -d foo
src/share/locale/ctype/en_US.ISO_8859-1.src
    $ cd foo
    $ mklocale en_US.ISO8859-1 > eu_ES.ISO8859-1.out
    $ sudo install -o root -g wheel -m 755 -d
/usr/share/locale/eu_ES.ISO8859-1
    $ sudo install -o root -g wheel -m 755
eu_ES.ISO8859-1.out 
    > /usr/share/locale/eu_ES.ISO8859-1/LC_CTYPE

or simply add following 2-lines to your
/usr/share/locale/locale.alias.

eu_ES.ISO8859-1/LC_CTYPE  en_US.ISO8859-1
eu_ES.ISO8859-1/LC_MESSAGES /FORCE


third, other LC_{COLLATE,NUMERIC,MONETARY,TIME,MESSAGES
and ISO/IEC TR14652 extensions} stuffs and localedef(1)
tool
are not implemented yet.
so that any language translations are not needed at this
point.

but if it done, i'll convert FreeBSD's locale databases
to POSIX charmap/localedef files.
so that, to maintain FreeBSD's locale databases may be great
help for me.
    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi
/src/share/colldef/es_ES.ISO8859-1.src
    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cg
i/src/share/monetdef/es_ES.ISO8859-1.src
    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/
src/share/msgdef/eu_ES.ISO8859-1.src
    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.
cgi/src/share/numericdef/eu_ES.ISO8859-1.src
    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi
/src/share/timedef/eu_ES.ISO8859-1.src


more infomation, please read POSIX locale specifications
and ISO/IEC TR14652.
    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695
399/utilities/localedef.html
    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinep
ubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap06.html#tag_06_04
    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinep
ubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html#tag_07_03
    http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG20/docs/n972-14652ft.pdf



very truly yours.
-- 
Takehiko NOZAKI <tnozakiNetBSD.org>

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 06:38:48PM +0900, Takehiko NOZAKI
wrote:
> hi,
> 
> > Who's in charge of Localization (L10N) in NetBSD?
> 
> maybe it's me.
> 
...
> third, other
LC_{COLLATE,NUMERIC,MONETARY,TIME,MESSAGES
> and ISO/IEC TR14652 extensions} stuffs and localedef(1)
tool
> are not implemented yet.
> so that any language translations are not needed at
this point.
> 
> but if it done, i'll convert FreeBSD's locale
databases
> to POSIX charmap/localedef files.
> so that, to maintain FreeBSD's locale databases may be
great help for me.
> 
...

I've started the process of converting FreeBSD's locale
databases
to the NetBSD format.  I just haven't had the time to
finish.  I've
got a script that automates the conversion.  However, I'm
not sure
that the FreeBSD's files are exactly correct.  This is based
on
comparisons of locale information from GNU (libc), Open
Solaris
(contributed), and Windows XP, along with various web
searches for
"official" locale information.

I've also started work on a localedef(1) tool.  Again, not
enough time
to complete.