> On Tuesday 2005.03.22 21:09:06 +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > >[..] > >It's an interesting document what you are writing and I am would > >interested to see how it progresses. > > Would it be a good idea to convert this into a wiki? No single > user can know enough about the various languages and scripts that > should be considered in Linux âmultilingualisationâ. > > Regards, Jan >
That might be a good idea. One problem with these static types of informational web pages about Linux is that they become out of date more quickly than the web page maintainer can keep up. That is certainly the case with my own Unicode Primer (http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/unicode/) which you reference at the bottom of your page -- it is becoming seriously out of date. I intend to update it completely from top to bottom, but it is a lot of work and I have only got about half-way done on a new set of pages. A second problem is that some people use Debian/Ubuntu, some use SuSE, some use Fedora, some use Mandrake, etc., and there are little differences here and there. So, for example, my own web pages concerning multilingualisation on Linux are decidedly SuSE-centric, with just a smattering of Mandrake thrown in, where as your page is more Debian-centric. Even though I have cursorily investigated multilingualisation issues on Ubuntu, I just don't have time to make a thorough investigation. And the third problem is the one you've already mentioned that no single user can know enough about all the various languages and scripts that need to be considered. So it would be great if there was a good wiki for this stuff. But it would still have to be maintained to avoid becoming out-of-date here-and-there. As a start, maybe it would be a good idea to put "last updated" dates on each and every contribution so readers would know to be suspicious if any information was on the old side. - Ed Trager -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
