On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 01:34:03AM +0000, Rafal Jan Czlonka wrote: > Shouldn't the config file be available in English then?
You are right, there should be SOME kind of documentation for the config file in English. Since this package will mostly be used by Poles, I am not sure which language should be by default in /etc/ydpdict.conf: - English would match the general Debian policy - Polish would be better for most package users - Polish is also in the upstream config file > Definitely the encoding needs to be changed to either > UTF-8 or ASCII. I don't think using UTF8 when the program itself does not support UTF8 environment is a good idea. (Not that there would be some problems with the program, but telling user to read the conffile in a utf-8 environment and use the program in a latin environment just feels wrong.) > Shouldn't the default 'Path' be rather '/usr/share/ydpdict'? I don't think so. Since there is no package which contains the dict files, user has to place them himself, and /usr/local is the right place for such stuff. > 1. Leave the config file in Polish but in UTF-8 or ASCII and add an > English one to /usr/share/doc/ydpdict/examples. I'm leaning towards this option (with ASCII-sation of Polish diacritics). > 2. Make the English one default. I'll think of this as well. > 3. Use a postinst script to achieve that. This sounds horrible. What I hate most in Debian are the unimportant questions like these being asked by debconf on system installation. > I remember that 'hrw' has written a nice postinst script for ydpdict > couple of years ago. I used it myself for my own packages. I think that > it could be easily extended to choose the prefered language and use > 'iconv' to to change the encoding if one prefers UTF-8. On the other hand I was planning to use a config script to set up the dictionary files, but never got down to it. Are they available somewhere? regards, Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
