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Re: [I18n] CJK UTF-8 locale's X locale db

Andrew C Aitchison
Tue, 08 Jul 2003 00:19:09 -0700

Tomohiro KUBOTA:
> Japanese people would think the system is broken or misconfigured
> if non-Japanese fonts were used.
>
> Japanese people may even fail to recognize or understand some of
> Chinese and Korean characters.


On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Federic Zhang wrote:
> No, we wouldn't agree. The Unihan issue will exist forever if
> only one unified iso10646-1 font is used.

I'm new to the locale files mentioned earlier in the thread, but my 
reading of {en_US,zh_TW,ko_KR,ja_JP}.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE is that they
give national/language preferences for non-iso10646 fonts, but that they
don't help prioritizing iso10646 fonts.

Is work being done so that ja_JP.UTF-8 favours Japanese iso10646 fonts
and ko_KR.UTF-8 favours Korean iso10646 fonts,
or will everyone have to keep non-iso10646 CJK fonts around forever ?

I suppose that CJK iso10646 fonts could go in separate directories
and the font path be reordered to select a preference,
but I thought locale was supposed to put all these controls
into one place.

-- 
Andrew C Aitchison




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