Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce From: Linux_Intl@orac.iinet.com.au (Linux Intl) Subject: Announce: Internationalization project Message-ID: < ann-15357.769637299@cs.cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 20:08:34 GMT Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh) I am one of the fortunate many who are lucky enough to be able to state that English is my native language. For me, using Linux is made a lot easier by being able to read in my native language a lot of the documentation that comes with Linux as well as the error messages and debugging info that is generated. Alas for those users who do not speak English or do not speak it well, the picture is much much different. While some languages do have partial support and have a few documents and man pages translated, there are many users who wish to have a more complete set of docs. The luxury we enjoy in the English speaking world should also be shared with those who happen to speak another language. Linux International is keen to assist in the "internationalization" of Linux. We are keen to start working on support for other languages within Linux and to promote the support for various nationalities and customs. The purpose of this announcement is to announce the opening of a mailing list which will be dedicated to coordinating the development of native language support within Linux - man pages, docs, kernel messages, libc locale support, the lot. Everyone and anyone is welcome to join this mailing list. We would also urge people to repost this message on local newsgroups to encourage others who may wish to help to join the mailing list and work together. This has the potential to be a very big project and one that would benefit a number of users throughout the world. Support for languages other than English will only help Linux spread even further and encourage others to use and recommend Linux. With your help and participation we can make a start on this and see that all users have the opportunity to grow and love Linux just as we all do. Hoping to see quite a few volunteers and participants on the mailing list. Regards, Patrick D'Cruze pdcruze@orac.iinet.com.au Linux International SUBSCRIBING =========== To subscribe to the li-international mailing list, send the following in the body (not the subject line) of an email message to "li-international-request@orac.iinet.com.au": subscribe li-international This will subscribe the account from which you send the message to the li-international list. If you wish to subscribe another address instead (such as a local redistribution list), you can use a command of the form: subscribe li-international other-address@your_site.your_net UNSUBSCRIBING ============= To unsubscribe from li-international, send the following in the body (not the subject line) of an email message to "majordomo@orac.iinet.com.au": unsubscribe li-international This will unsubscribe the account from which you send the message. If you are subscribed with some other address, you'll have to send a command of the following form instead: unsubscribe li-international other-address@your_site.your_net If you don't know what address you are subscribed with, you can send the following command to see who else is on the list (assuming that information isn't designated "private" by the owner of the list):o who li-international If you want to search non-private lists at this server, you can do that by sending a command like: which string This will return a list of all entries on all lists that contain "string". HELP ==== To find out more about the automated server and the commands it understands, send the following command to "majordomo@orac.iinet.com.au": help If you feel you need to reach a human, send email to li-international-approval@orac.iinet.com.au -- Mail submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu Be sure to include Keywords: and a short description of your software.