From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 10 23:49:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA05971 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:49:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jazz.snu.ac.kr (jazz.snu.ac.kr [147.46.59.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA05944 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:49:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr) Received: (from junker@localhost) by jazz.snu.ac.kr (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA18183; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 15:43:06 +0900 (KST) To: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh Cc: Gary Kline , tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: internationalization References: <6351.897526003@coconut.itojun.org> From: CHOI Junho Date: 11 Jun 1998 15:43:06 +0900 In-Reply-To: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh's message of Thu, 11 Jun 1998 09:46:43 +0900 Message-ID: Lines: 30 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh writes: > 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...) > 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... -- ----Cool FreeBSD!----MSX Forever!---J.U.N.K.E.R/Beat Snatchers!---- CHOI Junho http://jazz.snu.ac.kr/~junker Distributed Computing System Lab,CS Dept.,Seoul National Univ., ROK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message