Hi, At Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:14:57 +0900, jean-christophe helary wrote:
> i may have asked for that a while ago. but here i go again. i am looking for > khmer support for debian. i see that thai is being supported but i never > heard of khmer. although both languages use similar writting systems they are > still very different. > > any idea ? What encoding (charset) do you usually use for Khmer? If you use UTF-8 or other encodings which Debian and Linux already supports, you don't have to care about this region. However, if you have your local popular charset, you may want to add the support of the charset for GNU libc and XFree86. Now, I assume you use UTF-8. Next, you will need to determine a name for locale. Its format is, xx_YY[.ZZ] where xx is two lowercase letters from ISO 639 language code and YY is two uppercase letters from ISO 3166 country code. ZZ is optional part to express encoding. Here, "km" is ISO 639 language code for Khmer http://www.ethnologue.com/iso639/codes.asp and "KH" is ISO 3166 country code for Cambodia. (right?) http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1/en_listp1.html Thus, Khmer in Cambodia using UTF-8 is km_KH.UTF-8 or just km_KH (in case UTF-8 is the most popular encoding for Khmer). The above is a basis for all softwares. Next stage is to add Khmer support to GNU libc and XFree86. At first, you will need to write locale definition file for GNU libc. It defines various locale-specific things such as encoding, how to express date/time, currency, and so on. The files are located in /usr/share/i18n/locales/* for various locales. See locale(5) for detail. Next, you will need fonts for XFree86. I think XFree86 iso10646-1 fonts are good candidates where you may want to add Khmer characters. (They may have already have Khmer characters. I didn't check.) In this area, I imagine Thai people can help you because Khmer has combining characters like Thai. Please ask Chanop Silpa-Anan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (http://linux.thai.net/~thep/) may also help you. XFree86 i18n mailing list may be helpful, also. (http://xfree86.org/mailman/listinfo/i18n) Though I don't know well, Pango (http://www.pango.org) people will be interested in adding Khmer suppport. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
