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[Kyle Nitzsche <kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/04/2011 01:25 PM, Belinda Lopez wrote:
> 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. :-)
I understand. As far as I know, this is the first time the possible lack of 
support for Chinese and maybe other languages has been flagged.
This a significant issue, I think. Easy to side-step now, very hard to fix later 
as more and more content and translations build up.
I would like to know from our latex experts whether there is any support in 
latex for these important languages.
Cheers,
Kyle

> 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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