Re: linux localization

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Mar 11 2001 - 21:21:25 EST


> My work will concern with the internationalization of Linux
> So, could anybody tell me what kinds of features should be in the
> consideration when linux be localized from english to Japanese or chinese,
> say using 2 bytes character set.

Most of the Linux userspace libraries are set up for handling UTF8 and
other internationalisations. Fonts are more of an issue and lack of application
translations. Filenames are defined to be UTF8.

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