Thank you for responding. Please forgive my ignorance on these topics. I am
still learning. . .
How do you want to be able to support Chinese and some other language
without using unicode?
Well, I guess I don't know, and perhaps using UTF-8 is reasonable. Things
seem to work, for the most
Chinese support is coming along very nicely. I think we are almost there.
There are a few things that still don't work right, however. This message is
a little long, and somewhat detailed but will hopefully explain exactly what
the problems are, and what I did to test them.
When installing
As a Traditional Chinese user, I am getting dissatified with Mandrake Linux
since 8.x. Over the past year, Traditional Chinese support in Mandrake is
getting worst whereas Redhat is getting better. In fact, I find that most
former Mandrake users switch to Redhat.
I have found the same thing
On Friday 05 September 2003 21:01, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
miniChinput package has been updated, the new version works very well,
unless in UTF-8 locales. I made changes to DrakX/drakxtools to add the
command line parameter to chinput to tell to use gb or big5, which makes
it works whatever
On Friday 12 September 2003 00:09, Pierre Jarillon wrote:
In fact RC2 is a beta 4. Please, make a RC3 ! Don't waste the good
reputation of Mandrake with a lack of finition.
Although I read this discussion and understand the issues involved, the fact
is that Mandrake is already getting a bit of
In doing a default English NFS install from today's cooker, I get the
following error after installing the packages, but before entering the
passwords:
There was an error installing packages nautilus-gtkhtml-0.3.2-7mdk.i586
Go on anyway?
I do not see this package in the cooker.
vic
I want to know if I am installing correctly before reporting any more bugs.
I have been mirroring the cooker locally and installing via NFS. But I
recently hit another package installation bug, and I don't know if the
problem is due to incorrect installation on my part, due to a lag in the
Summary:
There are problems with using Chinese (simplified) and Mandrake. Chinput not
only doesn't work, it doesn't even seem to exist as an RPM. There are locale
problems with the shell. KDE is using the wrong font (probably using
traditional character font instead of a simplified character
