I mentioned this on deb18n, and Javier F-S said:
It certainly is something that should be fixed. Probably the d-i
authors did
not want to expand on that (didn't have time). A paragraph
describing where
the user might find HOWTOs and what to do for languages that don't
have any
would be great.
so I'll expand my suggested string to:
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po:129
auto: ⑤ Tag: para
Original: ⌘0 To configure your locale settings to use a language
other than English, install the locales support package and configure
it: <informalexample><screen>\n
# apt-get install locales\n
# dpkg-reconfigure locales\n
</screen></informalexample> NOTE: Apt must be configured beforehand
by creating a sources.list and running apt-get update. Before using
locales with character sets other than ASCII or latin1, please
consult the appropriate localization HOWTO.
I suggest:
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#. Tag: para
#. TRANSLATORS: replace {LANGUAGE} with your language, and replace
one or more {SOURCE}s with resources from your community such as Free
Software or Open-Source websites, Linux User Groups, Wikis, Forums or
mailing lists which can provide information on setting the locale for
your language. For example, for Vietnamese you could specify VNOSS
(Vietnamese Open Source Software community, which has forums, wiki
and lists of translated documentation) and VietLUG (Vietnamese Linux
User Group).
#: random-bits.xml:564
#, no-c-format
msgid ""
"To configure your locale settings to use a language other than
English, install the locales support package and configure it:
<informalexample><screen>\n"
"# apt-get install locales\n"
"# dpkg-reconfigure locales\n"
"</screen></informalexample> NOTE: Apt must be configured beforehand
by creating a sources.list and running apt-get update. Before using
locales with character sets other than ASCII or latin1, please
consult the appropriate <ulink url=\"http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-
INDEX/other-lang.html\">localization HOWTO</ulink>. If an appropriate
HOWTO for your language isn't present in this list, or if it doesn't
answer your questions, you can often find useful translated
documentation, forums and/or general support for {LANGUAGE} at
{SOURCE 1} and {SOURCE 2}."
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I don't know if the Vietnamese examples are useful or not. I always
find examples very useful when puzzling out how to translate a
string, but I'll leave it up to you, what you think is the best way
to do this.
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
