From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Muhammad Asif <mdasif@wol.net.pk>
Cc: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Multilingual Support in Linux
Date: 20 Mar 2003 14:53:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1048172006.2408.17.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030320141542.023ef2a8@10.10.10.10>
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 09:16, Muhammad Asif wrote:
> hi,
> I need some clear guidelines towards a bit confusing issue. I need to
> evaluate what kind of support/services are available in Linux as in windows
> xp for devloping and viewing Multilingual applications.
Linux uses the Unix locale system. That means you can stick a program
into any translated language you need and can have multiple languages in
use at once (although at the same time in one app is hairy in some
places)
> format Multilingual data according to a Locale. Similalry OS should be
> capable of storing/retreiving data in Unicode. I need some
> comparison/feature of Linux what kind of support/services it provides to
> develop/view the multilingual apps?
Red Hat 8 and higher normally gets run in unicode UTF8 mode (Windows
style UCS2 is too limiting for some roles)
> Do we need language specific distribution of linux to acheive above goals
> or like windows we can change settings specific to locale within same
> distribution?
You can change settings per user.
> Comments,URLs, Article or doc will be helpful for detail insight of issue.
One possible place to get a feel for it might be the site at
http://www.arabeyes.org/, which is working on complete Linux in
Arabic. There are lots of other projects/teams such as:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-20 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-20 9:16 Multilingual Support in Linux Muhammad Asif
2003-03-20 10:26 ` tom potts
2003-03-20 11:04 ` Multilingual Support in Linux (and Locales) Muhammad Asif
2003-03-20 14:41 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-20 14:53 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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