Kaixo! On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:54:32AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> My system has only en_US.UTF-8, ko_KR.UTF-8, and mk_MK.UTF-8 > in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias . > > However, since I think X locale is _only_ related to LC_CTYPE, No, it is not. It also has implications on the legacy encoding fonts that can be used (eg: CJK locales are better having separate files to define the national legacy encoding first, otherwise the output will be ugly in most cases); for non CJK locales using the standard X11 composition system the Compose file to load depends on the locale, currently the shipped default file (for en_US.UTF-8, that is the default utf-8 locale) has a very large set of compositions that cover all the languages using latin, greek and cyrillic that I know, as well as several typographical signs and quotes. > we don't need en_US.UTF-8 but we need one universal UTF-8 locale > for X, just like /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1 defines > all ISO-8859-1 locales. (Please correct me, since I feel I > may be wrong.) Well, it just happens that all iso-8859-1 locales get mapped to that directory; but nothing prevents having another directory with slightly different definitions. It just happens that all locales that may use iso-8859-1 can be satisfied with a single well though set of definitions. Yes, this is also the case for the majority of utf-8 locales as well; however some locales will need a specific set of definitions; those are the CJK locales; but maybe some others too. > > --- > Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ > "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ > _______________________________________________ > I18n mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n -- Ki �a vos v�ye b�n, Pablo Saratxaga http://www.srtxg.easynet.be/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0x8F0E4975 _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
