Hi, The program fortune included with SuSE 8.2 (and 8.1) now includes sayings in English only. Where can other language files be downloaded? I think version 7.1 carried some in Spanish. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 04:19 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
The program fortune included with SuSE 8.2 (and 8.1) now includes sayings in English only. Where can other language files be downloaded? I think version 7.1 carried some in Spanish.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Hi Carlos, This link might help out your search: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages2.pl?keywords=fortunes-es&searchon=names&version=all&release=all -- PARANOID:Paying MORE for Surge-Protectors than Computers ---------------------------------------------------------------- SuSE 8.2 - KDE 3.1.3 Darl McBride is a fscking diskhead
The 03.08.06 at 07:48, columbo wrote:
This link might help out your search:
Yes, it does. I got a "fortunes-es_1.9_all.deb", which I opened with midnight comander, and I manually copied some of the files - debian puts them on a different directory. That made me discover that 'fortune' doesn't support internationalization: ie, you can not choose the language, and it doesn't use the LANG environment setting. Pity. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
* Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas@tiscali.es) [030813 17:05]:
That made me discover that 'fortune' doesn't support internationalization: ie, you can not choose the language, and it doesn't use the LANG environment setting. Pity.
I hate to think that someone is bored enough to translate all of those. It's enough to make your own fortune files though, just put the chunks of text in a file and seperate them with '%'. E.g., This is a fortune. % This is another fortune. % : Then copy the file to /usr/share/fortune and run strfile your_file your_file.dat -- -ckm
On Thursday 14 August 2003 04:44, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
those. It's enough to make your own fortune files though, just put the chunks of text in a file and seperate them with '%'. E.g.,
This is a fortune. % This is another fortune. %
Then copy the file to /usr/share/fortune and run strfile your_file your_file.dat
strfile your_file is actually sufficient... (for the really lazy) Hansen -- Powered by SuSE 8.1pro - KDE 3.0.3 - KMail 1.4.3 At least, try asking smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. - Henri Poincair'e
The 03.08.13 at 19:44, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
That made me discover that 'fortune' doesn't support internationalization: ie, you can not choose the language, and it doesn't use the LANG environment setting. Pity.
I hate to think that someone is bored enough to translate all of those.
Ugh, not me! X'-) I'm not so bored! Perhaps some automated translation, and then check. Or somebody pay somebody to do it: I think they are far smaller than the novel "War and peace", for example :-p But I digress. What I meant was that the fortune program, based on the LANG environment is unable to automatically (or even manually) select english, spanish, or whatever, databases. Now that I do have spanish databases copied from Debian, I would like to be able to tell fortune to use only those... the only way is to list *all* of the files and put them in the command line. It doesn't even acept something like "fortune es_*" (all my spanish databases start with "es_". That's what I meant with the lack of internationalization in fortune. Not translation of the files. P.S: I think that some older SuSE version did have spanish databases. I'll try to check the CDs one day. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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