Possibility of an i18n forum?

rounin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Apr 2003 Posts: 84

Hello!

I think a lot of Gentoo users must be wondering how to enable i18n. For instance, to enable locale support, one needs to use USE="nls" emerge glibc instead of just "emerge glibc". One also needs to download input methods such as kinput2/canna or or USE="freewnn" kinput2 + wnn, one needs to set variables like LC_ALL and XMODIFIERS etc. While some of this stuff is not Gentoo-specific, the USE variables are.

That's why I think the Gentoo forums need a separate forum devoted to i18n, especially documenting stuff like rebuilding glibc with USE="nls" and other peculiarities in enabling i18n for Gentoo.

idl · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2003 6:13 pm Post subject:

wouldn it be better if you wrote a guide and posted it in the Tips Tricks & Docs forum and email it to the gentoo documentation team?
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plate · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2003 6:24 pm Post subject:

Very good idea! i18n, CJK, NLS and UTF-8 locales have always been an issue with lots of support questions in the forums. They usually end up in Desktop Environments, but a documentation effort would be more than welcome. The standard way of feeding docs into the mainstream is not via email, but Gentoo's Bugzilla, https://bugs.gentoo.org.

rounin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Apr 2003 Posts: 84

So how would I go about this.

I post the documents as bugs? I didn't quite get that last part.

Say I make one doc about USE flags/compiling glibc, one about canna, one about wnn, one about im-ja and one about kinput2... Or something like that...

I would do exactly what with them?

plate · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 1:05 pm Post subject:

Post them as bugs. Have a look at the expert reporting procedure. one of the categories there is "docs-user", and that's split into different subcategories later on.