Simplified Chinese screenshots

Simplified Chinese screenshots

[Carles Pina i Estany]

Hi,

Aron Xu sent me some screenshots of Grub booting time in Chinese:

http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU.png
http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU-1.png
http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU-2.png

I thought that was interesting to see Grub with other Unicode range than
the more usual for me :-)

(Yes, I know that Russian is there too)

As Aron said: the font size is not constant, so we should fix it in some
point.

Cheers,

-- 
Carles Pina i Estany
	http://pinux.info

Re: Simplified Chinese screenshots

[Chris Jones]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:32:14PM EST, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Aron Xu sent me some screenshots of Grub booting time in Chinese:
> 
> http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU.png
> http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU-1.png
> http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU-2.png

Thanks for posting this -- quite impressive. It would be nice to upload
a few such multi-lingual screenshots to a grub-gallery section of the
wiki, don't you think..?

Nice to see that there are users who are able to do some useful stuff
with the new grub, especially since lately, I have seen a couple of
trolls spreading some pretty inane FUD about the new grub on the
debian-user mailing list.

As for myself, I've been using grub-pc for 3-4 months now and found it a
breeze to set up with a little help from the folks on this list and the
irc channel, and though I have changed my config dozens of times, it's
been running without a glitch.

Nice..! :-)

CJ

Re: Simplified Chinese screenshots

[Carles Pina i Estany]

Hi,

On Feb/01/2010, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:32:14PM EST, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Aron Xu sent me some screenshots of Grub booting time in Chinese:
> > 
> > http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU.png
> > http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU-1.png
> > http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU-2.png
> 
> Thanks for posting this -- quite impressive. It would be nice to
> upload a few such multi-lingual screenshots to a grub-gallery section
> of the wiki, don't you think..?

When more translations will be done I will consider/do it. If someone
wants to do please go ahead :-)

> Nice to see that there are users who are able to do some useful stuff
> with the new grub, especially since lately, I have seen a couple of
> trolls spreading some pretty inane FUD about the new grub on the
> debian-user mailing list.

I haven't read the insane FUD(s). One important thing that we are on it
(Bruce I think) is writing documentation. Ok, we usually don't like it,
but the time spent writting http://grub.enbug.org/TestGettext payedback
very fast with the screenshots and I hope that more translators testing
the translations... and people understanding a bit how it works or how
to test it.

(This is my only my opinion)

-- 
Carles Pina i Estany
	http://pinux.info

Re: Simplified Chinese screenshots

[Bruce Dubbs]

Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Feb/01/2010, Chris Jones wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:32:14PM EST, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Aron Xu sent me some screenshots of Grub booting time in Chinese:
>>>
>>> http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU.png
>>> http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU-1.png
>>> http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU-2.png
>> Thanks for posting this -- quite impressive. It would be nice to
>> upload a few such multi-lingual screenshots to a grub-gallery section
>> of the wiki, don't you think..?
> 
> When more translations will be done I will consider/do it. If someone
> wants to do please go ahead :-)
> 
>> Nice to see that there are users who are able to do some useful stuff
>> with the new grub, especially since lately, I have seen a couple of
>> trolls spreading some pretty inane FUD about the new grub on the
>> debian-user mailing list.
> 
> I haven't read the insane FUD(s). One important thing that we are on it
> (Bruce I think) is writing documentation. Ok, we usually don't like it,
> but the time spent writting http://grub.enbug.org/TestGettext payedback
> very fast with the screenshots and I hope that more translators testing
> the translations... and people understanding a bit how it works or how
> to test it.

Yes, I'm working on documentation, but am concentrating on user level 
docs.  Programing documentation is another matter.

Progress is slow due to outside commitments, but I'm close to updating 
all the web (not wiki) pages.

   -- Bruce

Re: Simplified Chinese screenshots

[Chris Jones]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 05:36:40PM EST, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Feb/01/2010, Chris Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:32:14PM EST, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Aron Xu sent me some screenshots of Grub booting time in Chinese:
> > > 
> > > http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU.png
> > > http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU-1.png
> > > http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU-2.png
> > 
> > Thanks for posting this -- quite impressive. It would be nice to
> > upload a few such multi-lingual screenshots to a grub-gallery section
> > of the wiki, don't you think..?
> 
> When more translations will be done I will consider/do it. If someone
> wants to do please go ahead :-)

I wish I could.. elegant scripts like Bengali, Tamil, would be such a
nice addition to the usual 7-bit ascii sreenshots. 

> > Nice to see that there are users who are able to do some useful stuff
> > with the new grub, especially since lately, I have seen a couple of
> > trolls spreading some pretty inane FUD about the new grub on the
> > debian-user mailing list.
> 
> I haven't read the insane FUD(s). One important thing that we are on it
> (Bruce I think) is writing documentation. Ok, we usually don't like it,
> but the time spent writting http://grub.enbug.org/TestGettext payedback
> very fast with the screenshots and I hope that more translators testing
> the translations... and people understanding a bit how it works or how
> to test it.

Inane, not insane.. But I thought I'd mention the fact that on usually
fairly rational mailing lists such as debian's, there appears to be a
trend right now.. some inexperienced user hoses his box, complains, and
a few would-be gurus start spreading rumors.. 

> (This is my only my opinion)

Hopefully decent doc will put paid to this in no time.

Thanks,

CJ

Re: Simplified Chinese screenshots

[Chris Jones]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 05:54:31PM EST, Bruce Dubbs wrote:

[..]

> Yes, I'm working on documentation, but am concentrating on user level  
> docs.  Programing documentation is another matter.
>
> Progress is slow due to outside commitments, but I'm close to updating  
> all the web (not wiki) pages.

Great news..!

Anywhere we can take a look, or is it yet too early?

Thanks,

CJ

Re: Simplified Chinese screenshots

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

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Chris Jones wrote:
> I wish I could.. elegant scripts like Bengali, Tamil, would be such a
> nice addition to the usual 7-bit ascii sreenshots. 
>
>   
I already have bidi and most script-independent diacritics (engine which
automatically places them in right place). I'll implement Hebrew and
Arabic, perhaps Syriac and Thaana if it won't be a lot of overhead over
Hebrew and Arabic but I'm not familiar with Indic scripts other than the
general guidelines (replacing vowel, standalone vowel, virama).
Other problem is hat for now bidi and nice diacritics are limited to gfxmenu


-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko



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