Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:41:50 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: internationalization Message-ID: <199603210941.KAA12190@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960320134050.5504C-100000@gilligan.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Mar 20, 96 01:47:26 pm
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As Chuck Robey wrote: > I am just a little puzzled on one point. In ports, we have a healthy > sized couple of sections dedicated to ports that have been handcrafted > for Russian and Japanese FreeBSDers. I was thinking about this, and I > occurred to me that probably the largest group of FreeBSDers with a > non-English home tongue would be the Germans. How come there is no > German section? German is in the unusual advantage that it can be run with a simple 8-bit clean environment without much tweaking, now that ISO-8859-1 is de facto the default font for most things around here in a Unix environment. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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