Hi, At Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:21:25 +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> 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. I found that there IS a local Khmer encoding but it is different (incompatible) with Unicode. http://www.bauhahnm.clara.net/Khmer/Welcome.html#ODDENCODING Since GNU libc use Unicode (UCS-4) internally, encodings which are incompatible (inconvertable) to Unicode cannot be used. (You have to supply a mapping table to Unicode to add a support of an encoding.) Thus, the local Khmer encoding cannot be supported by Debian. You must use UTF-8. I heard that BSD people are developing more flexible locale system which can handle non-Unicode-compatible encodings. --- 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]
