Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 21:04:17 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> To: Satoshi Asami/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Chinese/Korean liasions wanted Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950405205947.2623E-100000@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504051021.DAA20828@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Wed, 5 Apr 1995, Satoshi Asami/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= wrote: > Hi all. > > You may have noticed the /usr/ports/japanese directory grow into a > pretty impressive heap recently, with a lot of help from my friends in > Japan (especially Nobuhiro Yasutomi) who send me ports of various > packages. This is good. > > However, Japanese isn't the only language that requires special > treatment, and we're severely lacking support for the other two of the > so-called "CKJ" major multi-byte languages. This is bad. > > Also, one of the intentions of making the /usr/ports/japanese was to > eventually have /usr/ports/chinese and /usr/ports/korean develop > alongside it. This is exciting. > Totally agree with you :-) > Right now, the only program that I'm aware of that understands Chinese > or Korean in the ports tree is mule, and it is also a pretty crippled > version due to my virtually non-existent knowledge of the respective > languages. This is sad. > That's true. > So, we need help. If any of you have a FreeBSD-2.0 or later machine, > and use those languages on your computer (or at least speak them ;) > regularly, please contact me. I'd like to have at least one person > for each of Korean, Traditional (Taiwan/HK) Chinese and Simplified > (Mainland) Chinese (sorry, don't even know how to call them...can I > just say Big5 and GB?). Of course, having more people will only > help.... > Ok, I speak and use Chinese (Cantonese). The characters are the same for both Cantonese and Mandarin except Taiwanese may be somewhat different. Big5 is more or less of the standard. So I can offer the help for Chinese. > Also, if somebody is interesting in supporting other languages, you > are very welcome too. Andrey Chernov (ache) has already done a lot of > work to make lots of system software 8-bit clean, so European language > users shouldn't need too much work (or so I believe). > > Thanks.... > > Satoshi > > P.S. For Traditional Chinese, there is an ftp site > (netbsd.csie.nctu.edu.tw:/pub/packages-jdli/source) that already > carries some stuff we can use, so check it out. > Actually, the correct site is (ifcss.org:/software) and for CXTerm, it's (ftp.cs.purdue.edu:/pub/ygz)... Cheers, Vince vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering
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