Hi, > I'm going to give a talk at debconf regarding i18n/l10n projects "early" in > the morning sunday [1]. I wanted to know if people at -i18n feel that the > following issues which I wanted to talk about cover sufficiently l10n/i18n > in Debian (sorry if it's not fully understandable, it's a draft atm):
Are there any people who will attend Debconf and are interested in relatively complex processing, including support of: - multibyte encoding (including UTF-8, but multibyte encodings such as EUC-JP, EUC-KR, GB2312, and Big5 are a "must" for east Asian), - combining characters (mainly for Thai and so on), - fullwidth (i.e. doublewidth) characters (mainly for east Asian), - bidi (Hebrew/Arab), - more complex languages (Indic and so on), and so on? These items need review of large part of text-processing softwares, and at the same time, they are prerequirements for all other areas of i18n (such as translation) for these peoples, so this is a severe problem for them. Unfortunately I cannot attend the Debconf, but the recent improvement of debconf package (will be available in a few days on Sid, as debconf version 1.3.0) would be an example what additional work and attention are needed for internationalized softwares. See http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/mojibake/debconf --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
