spanish language configurations & preferences

Carmen Chase sccl at ubbi.com
Fri Jan 28 12:11:40 PST 2005


Greetings and salutations from Argentina!
 
We’re new to FreeBSD and would like to “HISPANIFY” our BSD system as much as
possible. Though my English is fairly fluent, my husband’s is marginal.
 
For starters, replace the default American english manual (the one
accessible from shells) with one that describes commands in a standard
Spanish.
 
2ndly, change system language preference to Spanish - ¿isn’t there a Env
table or something in there that can be configured? Doesn’t KDE auto-select
language based on some system preference table or something?
 
3rdly, in as much as possible, change system prompts, messages etc
 to
standard Spanish - ¿has anyone bothered yet? If so, leads or instructions
would be great.
 
We understand that the kernel, shells, etc remain in standard American
computerese, he he he
 - no problem there.
 
On a dare we put BSD on a AMD K-6 PC which we put together from parts. It’s
been a successful experiment!
 
Any thoughts, suggestions, leads, hints, instructions would be greatly
appreciated.
 
Attently,
 
Carmen Chase
 
P.D. I used to work on a UNIX terminal back in US many years ago.


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