release-notes/devel/en_US I18n.xml,1.25,1.26
Murray McAllister (mdious)
fedora-docs-commits at redhat.com
Mon Mar 17 10:45:01 UTC 2008
Author: mdious
Update of /cvs/docs/release-notes/devel/en_US
In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv9924/en_US
Modified Files:
I18n.xml
Log Message:
revising I18n content as per wiki content
Index: I18n.xml
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RCS file: /cvs/docs/release-notes/devel/en_US/I18n.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.25
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -r1.25 -r1.26
--- I18n.xml 25 Oct 2007 03:11:58 -0000 1.25
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</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<section id="sn-Language-Coverage">
- <title>Language Coverage</title>
- <section id="sn-Language-Installation">
- <title>Language support installation</title>
- <para>
- To install additional language support from the Languages group,
- use <application>Pirut</application> via
- <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guimenuitem>Add/Remove
- Software</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, or run this command:
- </para>
- <screen><![CDATA[su -c 'yum groupinstall
- <language>-support']]></screen>
- <para>
+ <title>Language Coverage</title>
+ <para>
+ Fedora features a variety of software which is translated in <ulink url="http://translate.fedoraproject.org/languages">many languages</ulink>. For a list of languages refer to the <ulink url="http://translate.fedoraproject.org/module/anaconda">translation statistics</ulink> for <application>Anaconda</application>, which is one of the core software applications in Fedora.
+ </para>
+
+ <section id="sn-Language-Support-Installation">
+ <title>Language Support Installation</title>
+ <para>
+ To install additional language support from the <emphasis>Languages</emphasis> group, use <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guimenuitem>Add/Remove Software</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, or run this command:
+ </para>
+<screen>
+su -c 'yum groupinstall <replaceable>language</replaceable>-support'
+</screen>
+<para>
In the command above,
<replaceable><language></replaceable> is one of
<option>assamese</option>, <option>bengali</option>,
@@ -53,207 +54,199 @@
<option>thai</option>, or <option>telegu</option>.
</para>
<para>
- Users upgrading from earlier releases of Fedora are strongly
- recommended to install <package>scim-bridge-gtk</package>, which
- works well with 3rd party C++ applications linked against older
- versions of <systemitem class="library">libstdc++</systemitem>.
+ SCIM users upgrading from earlier releases of Fedora are strongly urged to install <package>scim-bridge-gtk</package>. This application works well with third-party C++ applications linked against older versions of <package>libstdc++</package>.
</para>
<para>To add SCIM support to input a particular language, install
- <package>scim-lang-<replaceable>LANG</replaceable></package>,
- where <replaceable>LANG</replaceable> is one of
- <option>assamese</option>, <option>bengali</option>,
- <option>chinese</option>, <option>dhivehi</option>,
- <option>farsi</option>, <option>gujarati</option>,
- <option>hindi</option>, <option>japanese</option>,
- <option>kannada</option>, <option>korean</option>,
- <option>latin</option>, <option>malayalam</option>,
- <option>marathi</option>, <option>oriya</option>,
- <option>punjabi</option>, sinhalese<option></option>,
- <option>tamil</option>, <option>telugu</option>,
- <option>thai</option>, or <option>tibetan</option>.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-Transifex">
+ <package>scim-lang-<replaceable>LANG</replaceable></package>,
+ where <replaceable>LANG</replaceable> is one of
+ <option>assamese</option>, <option>bengali</option>,
+ <option>chinese</option>, <option>dhivehi</option>,
+ <option>farsi</option>, <option>gujarati</option>,
+ <option>hindi</option>, <option>japanese</option>,
+ <option>kannada</option>, <option>korean</option>,
+ <option>latin</option>, <option>malayalam</option>,
+ <option>marathi</option>, <option>oriya</option>,
+ <option>punjabi</option>, sinhalese<option></option>,
+ <option>tamil</option>, <option>telugu</option>,
+ <option>thai</option>, or <option>tibetan</option>.
+ </para>
+</section>
+<section id="sn-Transifex">
<title>Transifex</title>
- <para>This release features <ulink
- url="https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/transifex/">Transifex</ulink>,
- a new tool designed to facilitate contributing translations to
- projects hosted on remote and disparate version control systems.
- Core packages in this release use Transifex to receive
- translations from numerous contributors.</para>
- <para>Through a combination of <ulink
- url="http://translate.fedoraproject.org/">new Web
- tools</ulink>, community growth, and better processes,
- translators can now contribute directly to any upstream project
- through one translator-oriented Web interface. Developers of
- projects with no existing translation community can easily reach
- out to Fedora's established community for translations. In turn,
- translators can reach out to numerous projects related to Fedora
- to easily contribute translations.</para>
- </section>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-I18n-Fonts">
- <title>Fonts</title>
- <para>In Fedora 8 fonts for all available languages are now
- installed by default on the desktop to give good default language
- coverage. Most of the fonts in generically named font packages
- have been moved to their own packages to reflect the upstream name
- and make font choices easier.</para>
- <section id="sn-arabic-fonts">
- <title>Arabic fonts</title>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>The <package>kacst-fonts</package> and
- <package>paktype-fonts</package> packages have been split
- out of <package>fonts-arabic</package>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-chinese-fonts">
- <title>Chinese fonts</title>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>the <package>cjkunifonts-fonts</package> package has
- been split out of <package>fonts-chinese</package> into two
- subpackages for the Uming and Ukai faces.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>The <package>taipeifonts</package> package has been
- split out of <package>fonts-chinese</package>.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>The <package>wqy-bitmap-fonts</package> package is now
- installed by default with Chinese support.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>The <package>wqy-unibit-fonts</package> package has been
- added.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-hebrew-fonts">
- <title>Hebrew fonts</title>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>The <package>culmus-fonts</package> fonts package has
- been split out of <package>fonts-hebrew</package>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-indic-fonts">
- <title>Indic fonts</title>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>The <package>lohit-fonts</package> package has been
- split out of <package>fonts-indic</package>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-japanese-fonts">
- <title>Japanese fonts</title>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>The <package>sazanami-fonts</package> package has been
- split out of <package>fonts-japanese</package> into two
- subpackages for the Gothic and Mincho faces.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>The <package>jisksp16-1990-fonts</package> package has
- been split out of <package>fonts-japanese</package>.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>The <package>knm_new-fonts</package> package has been
- split out of <package>fonts-japanese</package>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para><package>VLGothic-fonts</package> will become the new
- default Japanese font starting in Fedora 9. </para>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-korean-fonts">
- <title>Korean fonts</title>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>The <package>baekmuk-ttf-fonts</package> and
- <package>baekmuk-bdf-fonts</package> packages have been
- split out of <package>fonts-korean</package>. The
- <package>baekmuk-ttf-fonts</package> package provides four
- subpackages for Batang, Dotum, Gulim and Headline
- typefaces.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-sinhala-font">
- <title>Sinhala font</title>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>The <package>lklug-fonts</package> package has been
- split out of <package>fonts-sinhala</package>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </section>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-Input-Methods">
- <title>Input Methods</title>
- <section id="sn-improved-im-chooser">
- <title>Improved <command>im-chooser</command></title>
- <para>The user interface of <command>im-chooser</command> has been
- improved to be simpler and easier to understand.</para>
- <para>Input methods only start by default on desktops running in
- an Asian locale. The current list is:
- <systemitem>as</systemitem>, <systemitem>bn</systemitem>,
- <systemitem>gu</systemitem>, <systemitem>hi</systemitem>,
- <systemitem>ja</systemitem>, <systemitem>kn</systemitem>,
- <systemitem>ko</systemitem>, <systemitem>ml</systemitem>,
- <systemitem>mr</systemitem>, <systemitem>ne</systemitem>,
- <systemitem>or</systemitem>, <systemitem>pa</systemitem>,
- <systemitem>si</systemitem>, <systemitem>ta</systemitem>,
- <systemitem>te</systemitem>, <systemitem>th</systemitem>,
- <systemitem>ur</systemitem>, <systemitem>vi</systemitem>,
- <systemitem>zh</systemitem>). Use
- <application>im-chooser</application> via <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>System</guimenu>
- <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
- <guisubmenu>Personal</guisubmenu>
- <guimenuitem>Input Method</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to enable
- or disable SCIM on your desktop. To make changes effective, you
- must restart the desktop session.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-scim-hotkeys">
- <title>SCIM hotkeys</title>
<para>
- The following table lists the default SCIM trigger hotkeys for
- different languages:
+ <ulink url="https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/transifex/">Transifex</ulink> is Fedora's online tool to facilitate contributing translations to projects hosted on remote and disparate version control systems. Many of the core packages use Transifex to receive translations from numerous contributors.
</para>
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>Language</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Trigger hotkeys</segtitle>
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>all</seg>
- <seg><keycombo>
- <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>
- <keycap>Space</keycap>
- </keycombo>
- </seg>
- </seglistitem>
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>Japanese</seg>
- <seg><keycap>Zenkaku_Hankaku</keycap> or <keycombo>
- <keycap>Alt</keycap>
- <keycap>`</keycap></keycombo></seg>
- </seglistitem>
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>Korean</seg>
- <seg><keycombo>
- <keycap>Shift</keycap>
- <keycap>Space</keycap></keycombo> or
- <keycap>Hangul</keycap></seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Other input methods</title>
- <para>This release adds support for the
- <systemitem>nabi</systemitem> input method for Korean
- Hangul.</para>
+ <para>
+ Through a combination of <ulink url="http://translate.fedoraproject.org/">new Web tools</ulink>, community growth, and better processes, translators can contribute directly to any upstream project through one translator-oriented Web interface. Developers of projects with no existing translation community can easily reach out to Fedora's established community for translations. In turn, translators can reach out to numerous projects related to Fedora to easily contribute translations.
+ </para>
+</section>
+</section>
+
+<section id="sn-I18n-Fonts">
+ <title>Fonts</title>
+ <para>
+ Fonts for all available languages are installed by default on the desktop to give good default language coverage. <package>dejavu-fonts</package> replaces <package>dejavu-lgc-fonts</package> as the default system font.
+ </para>
+
+ <section id="sn-Chinese-fonts">
+ <title>Chinese fonts</title>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <package>wqy-zenkai-fonts</package> package has been added.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+ <section id="sn-Indic-fonts">
+ <title>Indic fonts</title>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <package>samyak-fonts</package> package has been added.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <package>sarai-fonts</package> package has been added.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+ <section id="sn-Japanese-fonts">
+ <title>Japanese fonts</title>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <package>VLGothic-fonts</package> is the new default font for Japanese in Fedora 9. It now has a subpackage <package>VLGothic-fonts-proportional</package> for its proportional version.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+ <section id="sn-Nepali-fonts">
+ <title>Nepali fonts</title>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <package>madan-fonts</package> package has been added.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+ <section id="sn-Thai-fonts">
+ <title>Thai fonts</title>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <package>thaifonts-scalable</package> package has been added, making Thai TrueType fonts available in Fedora.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</section>
- </section>
</section>
+
+<section id="sn-Input-Methods">
+ <title>Input Methods</title>
+ <para>
+ It is now possible to start and stop the of Input Methods in GTK applications during runtime thanks to the new <emphasis>imsettings</emphasis> framework. The <option>GTK_IM_MODULE</option> environment variable is no longer needed by default but can still be used to override the <emphasis>imsettings</emphasis>.
+ </para>
+ <section id="sn-im-chooser">
+ <title>im-chooser</title>
+ <para>
+ With the new <emphasis>imsettings</emphasis> framework, <command>im-chooser</command> can now start and stop Input Method usage dynamically on the GNOME Desktop.
+ </para>
+ <para>Input methods only start by default on desktops running in
+ an Asian locale. The current list is:
+ <systemitem>as</systemitem>, <systemitem>bn</systemitem>,
+ <systemitem>gu</systemitem>, <systemitem>hi</systemitem>,
+ <systemitem>ja</systemitem>, <systemitem>kn</systemitem>,
+ <systemitem>ko</systemitem>, <systemitem>ml</systemitem>,
+ <systemitem>mr</systemitem>, <systemitem>ne</systemitem>,
+ <systemitem>or</systemitem>, <systemitem>pa</systemitem>,
+ <systemitem>si</systemitem>, <systemitem>ta</systemitem>,
+ <systemitem>te</systemitem>, <systemitem>th</systemitem>,
+ <systemitem>ur</systemitem>, <systemitem>vi</systemitem>,
+ <systemitem>zh</systemitem>). Use
+ <application>im-chooser</application> via <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>System</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Personal</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Input Method</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to enable or disable Input method usage on your desktop.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="Qt-immodules">
+ <title>Qt immodules</title>
+ <para>
+ Currently QT 4 does not yet support immodules other than XIM.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="sn-SCIM-hotkeys">
+ <title>SCIM hotkeys</title>
+ <para>
+ SCIM now only defines trigger hotkeys for Asian languages as in the following table:
+ </para>
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>Language</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>Trigger hotkeys</segtitle>
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>Chinese</seg>
+ <seg><keycombo>
+ <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>
+ <keycap>Space</keycap>
+ </keycombo></seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>Indic</seg>
+ <seg><keycombo>
+ <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>
+ <keycap>Space</keycap>
+ </keycombo></seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>Japanese</seg>
+ <seg><keycap>Zenkaku_Hankaku</keycap> or <keycombo>
+ <keycap>Alt</keycap>
+ <keycap>`</keycap></keycombo></seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>Korean</seg>
+ <seg><keycombo>
+ <keycap>Shift</keycap>
+ <keycap>Space</keycap></keycombo> or
+ <keycap>Hangul</keycap></seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+ </section>
+ <section id="sn-scim-python">
+ <title>scim-python</title>
+ <para>
+ This release adds the <package>scim-python</package> package, which allows writing Input Method Engines for SCIM in python.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="sn-scim-python-chinese">
+ <title>scim-python-chinese</title>
+ <para>
+ The <package>scim-python</package> package also includes a subpackage <package>scim-python-pinyin</package> that provides PinYin and ShuangPin Input Methods for improved input of Simplified Chinese. The PinYin Input Method replaces <package>scim-pinyin</package> as the default input method for Simplified Chinese. The <package>scim-python-xingma</package> package provides a number of tables for other Chinese input methods.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+</section>
+</section>
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