From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: Multilingual Support in Linux Date: 20 Mar 2003 14:53:27 +0000 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1048172006.2408.17.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030320141542.023ef2a8@10.10.10.10> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030320141542.023ef2a8@10.10.10.10> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Muhammad Asif Cc: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org 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/