Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
On Tuesday, 26 February 2008 at 23:09, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 13:54 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 13:49 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>> Bill Nottingham (notting(a)redhat.com) said:
>>>> The biggest issue I could see is that any issues in handling such a
package
>>>> would need to be fixed *everywhere* that package is deployed, whether it
>>>> be current Fedora, earlier Fedora, or EPEL. It may not be practical to
>>>> deploy such fixes everywhere.
> To me, these are the least issues. They are of a technical nature and
> can be overcome/fixed (utf-8)
>
> My concern is usability of the distro.
>
> IMO, we can not avoid to restrict certain aspects of the distro to the
> least common denominator. Package-names are such a case.
>
>>> Consider, for example, that such a package breaks bugzilla. Although I
>>> suppose that's one way to avoid getting bug reports.
>>>
>> /me renames yum to ᶨᶬⱴ
> Is this Farsi, Arab or Hebrew?
>
> Proposal: Let's rename the bodhi and koji packages + their primary
> executables into their Indian rsp. Japanese equivalents :)
I, for one, have nothing against 工事. At least I wouldn't have to cringe
at the bad romanization that's used all over the place. :P
As for executables, you can always do something like
# ln -s 工事 /usr/bin/koji
and ship both... just kidding.
This does bring up on interesting point. The package name has been
brought up as a usability concern for those who aren't used to trying to
type non-ASCii characters. However if an upstream was producing a
program whose binary was non-ASCii we'd currently allow inclusion (and I
would be even more opposed to changing that without getting upstream to
make the change than changing the package name.)
For a possible valid use, think of this potential pair of tools for
students learning Japanese:
/usr/bin/ひらがな2rōmaji
/usr/bin/rōmaji2ひらがな
Although this discussion sheds an entirely new light on l10n/i18n.
Imagine
a fully localised system, where not only messages, but also everything else
is translated into local language.
/me imagines typing (pl_PL.UTF-8 locale)
$ znajdź . -typ p -upr 0600 -drukuj
Oh, the horror. ;)
Nonsense! Since there are so many things on the filesystem which aren't
real words (what's a "usr", what's a "gnumeric"?) we should
obviously
forgo translation and instead do transliteration! :-)
-Toshio