Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:48:41 +0900 From: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@iijlab.net> To: CHOI Junho <junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: internationalization Message-ID: <11475.897551321@coconut.itojun.org> In-Reply-To: junker's message of 11 Jun 1998 15:43:06 JST. <wkbts0a16t.fsf@jazz.snu.ac.kr>
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>> Yes, iso-2022 families are quite important for supporting >> asian languages. Unicode is, for us Japanese, quite incomplete and >> unexpandable. >I don't understand why unicode is worse for Japanese. Just lack of >some Kanji glyphs? (someone in Japan pointed me a book but I couldn't >get the book...) For multilingualization Unicode is useless (as I wrote in the previous email to hackers). We already got a framework that is capable for multilingualization (iso-2022), we are already using it. euc-kr is one of iso-2022 family too, as you know. >> Yes, for Japanese, Chinese and Korean iso-2022 based model (euc-xx >> falls into the category) is really important. However, I personally >> believe that filenames must be kept in C locale for simplicity... >Yes, I agree. >For internationalization, I suggest GNU gettext support. Although glibc >or fileutils(except gnuls) is not used officially in the FreeBSD, >there are many other program supporting GNU gettext. For multiple >language messages, GNU gettext is used widely, so I think it is better >to port it into FreeBSD(as a port). I am Korean language >sub-maintainer in GNU NLS Project, but ironically I can't see the >messages translated by me in my FreeBSD machine... gnuls, bison, a2ps, >windowmaker, freetype need GNU gettext, but it is ignored in the phase >of port compilation... yes, I agree that NLS is another important portion for internationalizing applications. itojun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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