On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:11:57AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > > I know there is a whole bunch of problems with Chinese support in woody at > > the moment with respect to the new glibc 2.2 and XFree86 4.0.1 upload. I > > wish I have more time to address them now, but probably won't have time to > > do so until December. (School projects deadline coming up very > > quickly...)
... and my final exam for this year is on next Monday. I'll probably be able to work on Debian again at last... and I finally became an official maintainer yesterday. Just in time! :p > My final thesis is due tomorrow!!! Please let me know what I can muck > around to improve the Chinese support in woody. I will devote my next 3 > months entirely to woody... There are at least a few problems in woody regarding Chinese support: * the xfonts-arphic-* packages. As you probably know, XFree86 4 is now in woody, and it has TrueType support built in. You might want to have a look and see if that can be used instead of xfs-xtt. I haven't looked too much into this yet, as the X-TT module in X4 lacks the BIG5HKSCS module :( * Encoding naming conventions. Currently different spellings of "Big5", "big5", "BIG5", "big-5" etc etc are all over the place. We need to agree on a standard capitalization of this (probably big5), and see which package(s) are affected. * See what prevents a user from using Chinese right away after a fresh install of/upgrade to woody. * hmm .. that's all I can think of right now... As you can see, there're still a few rough edges ... (what a gross understatement :p) Let's make this a goal for woody: that a user can work in a totally Chinese environment straight away! :D BTW, good luck on your thesis! > ____________________________________________________________________________ > Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _____ > Department of Communications / __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ > University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | > Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |___/ > _____________________________________________________________________________ Aha! G'day from Melbourne! :) -- Roger So telnet://e-fever.org spacehunt at e-fever dot org SysOp, e-Fever BBS GnuPG 1024D/98FAA0AD F2C3 4136 8FB1 7502 0C0C 01B1 0E59 37AC 98FA A0AD
