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| -rw-r--r-- | archinstall/locales/README.md | 23 |
diff --git a/archinstall/locales/README.md b/archinstall/locales/README.md index cd7d794a..e1266209 100644 --- a/archinstall/locales/README.md +++ b/archinstall/locales/README.md @@ -4,19 +4,13 @@ Archinstall supports multiple languages, which depend on translations coming fro ## Important Note Before starting a new language translation be aware that a font for that language may not be -available on the ISO. We are using the pre-installed font `/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/LatGrkCyr-8x16.psfu.gz` in archinstall -which should cover a fair amount of different languages but unfortunately not all of them. +available on the ISO. -We have the option to provide a custom font in case the above is not covering a specific language, which can -be achieved by installing the font yourself on the ISO and saving it to `/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/archinstall_font.psfu.gz`. -If this font is present it will be automatically loaded and all languages which are not supported by the default font will -be enabled (but only some might actually work). +Fonts that are using a different character set than Latin will not be displayed correctly. If those languages +want to be selected than a proper font has to be set manually in the console. -Please make sure that the provided language works with the default font on the ISO, and if not mark it in the `languages.json` -that it needs an external dependency -``` -{"abbr": "ur", "lang": "Urdu", "translated_lang": "اردو", "external_dep": true}, -``` +All available console fonts can be found in `/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts` and they +can be set with `setfont LatGrkCyr-8x16` ## Adding new languages @@ -49,10 +43,3 @@ msgstr "Wollen sie wirklich abbrechen?" After the translations have been written, run the script once more `./locales_generator.sh` and it will auto-generate the `base.mo` file with the included translations. After that you're all ready to go and enjoy Archinstall in the new language :) - -To display the language inside Archinstall in your own tongue, please edit the file `languages.json` and -add a `translated_lang` entry to the respective language, e.g. - -``` - {"abbr": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "translated_lang": "Polski"} -``` |