From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 12 7:59:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from relay2.smtp.psi.net (relay2.smtp.psi.net [38.8.188.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D0714E38 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:59:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keichii@mail.utexas.edu) Received: from [38.192.209.90] (helo=keichii) by relay2.smtp.psi.net with smtp (Exim 1.90 #1) for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org id 11mJ6c-00060Y-00; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:59:18 -0500 Message-ID: <004e01bf2d26$d91c9740$5ad1c026@keichii> From: "雲電之風 Michael Wu" To: "-chat@FreeBSD" References: <01bf2cf4$81bdb880$0000e9c1@serv2.binep.ac.ru> Subject: Re: China loves Linux? Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:59:05 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="big5" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Apologiz for posting again As far as I can see, the only disadvantage that FreeBSD has in Asia lies in that FreeBSD lacks localization customizability when compared to Linux or M$. [hence the M$ tag in my email headers] Microsoft has done extremely well in allowing Asian language speakers Winblows has Japanese, Korean, traditional and simplified Chinese version that are localized to the start menu and control panel while allowing us to input/view Asian languages with ease. LINUX has been completely localized in China and China and has default stuff. LINUX internationalization support is comparable or just slightly worse to M$. [Good job CLE guys] And that worries many hardcore FreeBSDers because new users and beginners are prone to choose either Linux or M$ just because they can read what is on the screen. Due to the special situation in China/Taiwan, most localization/internationalization effort has been mainly contributions of college or graduate students. One just cannot tell his/her supervisor "I need to work on this FreeBSD port and cannot work on my thesis." :) So we would welcome any help that comes our way. Machines for development would be welcome. Any coders who would like to lend a hand please drop an email to free-taiwan-chat@freebsd.sinica.edu.tw . Most importantly, and we need this very direly, is for developers/porters/committers writing code on kernels, important system programs, ports, etc. to keep their stuff i18n compliant. internationalization==i18n, count letters between first 'i' and last 'n' ] Please refer to /usr/ports/converters/i18n-tools for details. Mainly i18n is to allow easy porting to make 2-byte characters readable and stuff. Thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it. I hope I did not step out of place by asking for such things. Maybe I should have let the more respectable gurus working on i18n to speak about this. But please make sure your port give us some room to move it to other languages. /me bows in respect and humility Michael Chin-Yuan Wu 鉛刀貴一割﹐夢想聘良圖。 Strive for the very best, the outcome is not important. FreeBSD - Service Pack FFFF For NT / Ultimate Patch for Linux -- : http://uk.news.yahoo.com/991110/22/ax8w.html : : http://www.graphon.com/News/pr-china991102.html : : China is really going to fall in love with Linux? : This can be a sad news for us FreeBSD lovers... : : Regards, Goshik : __________________________________________________ ___ : Windows 2001: "Sorry, pal, i just can't do this" : : : : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org : with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message