On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Kent Karlsson wrote: > > The mappings used are at least also from the RFC 1345 (recode uses that) > > or the IS 15897 which uses many if the same names and mappings. > > Specifically I have seen that Linux is *not* using the Unicode data > > because of copyright issues. > > Hmmm. From http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeCharacterDatabase.html: > > Limitations on Rights to Redistribute This Data > > Recipient is granted the right to make copies in any > form for internal distribution and to freely use the > > I don't see this as restrictive for use in Linux. I'm sure Unicode > consortium would like to see its data being used also in open source
glibc 2.x may not use them, yet. However, glib(and other libraries built on top of it) indeed makes an extensive use of Unicode data files. So do Perl, Yudit, Mozilla and other free/opensource programs/projects that run on Linux. Jungshik -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
