On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Gora Mohanty <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 2009 09:44:06 +0530 > Santhosh Thottingal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Here is my list >> Locales >> 1. Locale independent sorting is not possible in GNU/Linux now. ie,, >> You get different output if you sort Malayalam text in Tamil Locale or >> Japan locale. > [...] > > This was discussed extensively at FOSS.in, and the work > done by Rahul, Pravin, et al, addresses this issue.
No. I am not talking about that. I am talking about the problem when LC_COLLATE is defined in xx_IN and not in iso14651_t1_common file. When sorting a language xx_IN in yy_IN locale collation rules of xx_IN not taken and it defaults to C. Just try sorting a file with more than 3 indian language using sort command in en_US locale. You will get a completely wrong output. [I had confirmed this problem with Pravin Satpute] >> Identify the problem by discussing with others, report bug. >> I have a patch for fixing this in Tamil locale. Testing it, >> submitting to glibc. > > The point is not to fix it locale by locale, but to have > a single sorting table that is simply included into each > locale. > We define collation rules in iso14651_t1_common file with each locale referring it. But ta_IN is not using common locale definitions and use its own LC_COLLATE section and make other locales fail. Please refer ta_IN LC_COLLATE section of your distro. >> 2. Spellcheck > [...] >> As of now, aspell or hunspell will work only in GNOME. In KDE , >> spellchecker will not work for Indian languages. > [...] > > Er, what? Don't know about Hunspell, but aspell has worked in > KDE for donkey's years. Just checked again, and it does work > at least in kate, and kword, once the spell-checking dictionary > is set. I am talking about KDE 4.2. From 4.0, KDE uses Sonnet as a library for interfacing with various spell check backends. While doing word boundary detection, it uses Qt's isLetter, isAlpha functions. Those functions are buggy for Indian languages. Recently we had fixed this problem in glibc. Since QT uses its own unicode character database, this basic functions need to be fixed to get spellchecker working in KDE(>4.0) Refer http://santhoshtr.livejournal.com/14738.html for more details. Spellcheck is just one feature that got affected by this QT bug . And I came to know that even the latest Qt version also fails to do word boundary detection Thanks Santhosh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ IndLinux-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-group
