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[Belinda Lopez <belinda.lopez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kyle,
  we can't let the translation issue drive getting the first version of 
the book out.  I know everyone wants to make it as accommodating as 
possible but we can't let it block getting the initial work finished.  
So, nope, we're not changing the infrastructure or toolchain at this 
point but can only hope that certain talented developers will use this 
as a test case to improve the toolchain as they identify these issues. :-)

Any and everyone is welcome to join the various documentation teams from 
Gnome, Ubuntu, OpenStack, Mozilla, Drupal and other FOSS groups at the 
http://openhelpconference.com/ conference this summer to help address 
all these and other issues.

thanks all!

Belinda


On 01/04/2011 11:00 AM, Kyle Nitzsche wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> That list of supported languages does not seem to include Chinese 
> (Simplified or Traditional), Japanese, or Korean (for example).
>
> Does Ubuntu Manual support any of these?
>
> Is there a way to support these in a latex system?
>
> And the BIG question: if Latex does not support these scripts, does 
> that present an obstacle for its use to produce this document?
>
> As an aside, I have used apache fop to produce pdfs in Chinese (and 
> Cyrillic, and others) from docbook.
>
> Cheers,
> Kyle
>
> On 01/04/2011 11:45 AM, Chris Woollard wrote:
> > Kyle,
> >
> > Don't quote me directly on this. This is as I remember from godbyk. I 
> > am sure he will correct me if I am not exactly correct ;)
> >
> > We use polyglossia for language support.
> >
> >
> > The following document lists supported languages (page 4).
> >
> > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/polyglossia/polyglossia.pdf
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 4 January 2011 16:13, Kyle Nitzsche <kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > <mailto:kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     This project is using the ubuntu manual latex-based system to for
> >     source files and to produce pdfs.
> >
> >     Instructions to the install latex related software (needed to
> >     build pdfs) says:
> >     "Note that not all languages are supported yet (especially those
> >     requiring
> >     non-Latin scripts)"
> >
> >     ^^that's on the first page of Chapter 6 of the style guide linked
> >     to at the top here:
> >     https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/10.10/DeveloperManual
> >
> >     QUESTION: Is this build system limited to producing pdfs for
> >     languages that use the latin script?
> >
> >     If so, that would mean, for example, no Chinese, Russian, Greek,
> >     Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and etc.
> >
> >     If so, are there plans in place to support the world's (major)
> >     scripts?
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >     Kyle
> >
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