Hi kedar
are you trying to say that before we are to start "hindizing" the
applications, the whole Xwindows servers have to be re-written to be able to
support unicode ?
and , since I don't profess to know everything, what is unicode ?
vibhu..
----- Original Message -----
From: Kedar Patankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] internationalizing in hindi
> Hi,
>
> > > > is anyone working on Internationalizing GNOME in hindi ? I know that
I
> > won't
>
> As I understand it, the biggest hurdle in *truely*
> internationalizing gnome (any X app) is getting the whole X infrastructure
> to properly support unicode (iso 10646). AFAIK, xlib which is used by all
> X apps to communicate with the X server doesn't support unicode.
> So it is a matter to get X understand unicode properly, and then
> make gnome/kde/whatever to support that, and finally writing the l10n
> (localization) stuff for any local language you want supported.
> Correct me if I am wrong, but I think glibc does support unicode,
> the only major work that remains is X.
>
> Regards,
> Kedar.
>
>
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