Messages in this thread | | | From | Rick Hohensee <> | Subject | Re: linux localization | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:39:51 -0500 (EST) |
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>> 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.
For the features that don't exist in Linux yet, you want to look closely at Plan 9 From Bell Labs, whence UTF-8 originates. Plan 9 for example has font cacheing in the kernel for huge glyph sets, if I read it right. The Plan 9 C compiler, written by Ken Thompson, author of UNIX and ed, specifically for writing Plan 9, is fully UTF-8 also. Everything else in Plan 9 is also UTF-8, from ed to libc to the GUI.
Per-process namespaces are a Plan 9 idea also. That is the ultimate in localization. Plan 9 was released relatively recently under a license clearly patterned after the GPL. Congratulations once again to Richard Stallman. Thompson, Ritchie, Pike and so on have embraced his most important ideas.
Plan 9 has a narrow platform base compared to Linux or NetBSD. I myself haven't been able to install it on my oldish hardware. You probably need to see it running, I suspect.
My own Dotted Standard File Hierarchy mechanism in cLIeNUX (Linux/GNU/unix) may also be of interest. See my "/" below. That could easily be Japanese, Mandarin, Hindi, etc.
ftp://linux01.gwdg.de/pub/cLIeNUX/descriptive/DSFH.html
Rick Hohensee www.clienux.com
:; cLIeNUX /dev/tty3 00:12:08 / :;d -d */ Linux// dev// help// mounts// suite// boot// device// incoming// owner// temp// command// floppy// log// source// configure// guest// lost+found// subroutines// :; cLIeNUX /dev/tty3 00:42:44 / :; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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