Hi, Roland, Thank you very much for the comments, and please see my reply in-line,
Roland Mainz wrote: > Yong Sun wrote: > >> This project is targeting to Indiana 2008.11 release, UTF-8 locales have >> higher priority than legacy locales, >> > > Right (except stuff like "zh_CN.GB18030" which still should be preferred > over the UTF-8 variant since the matching goverment requires it (and is > very picky about it)) ... > > >> we will gather more >> information/feedback to see if we have future plans for legacy locales. >> > > Ok... my main concern is "interoperabilty", e.g. what happens if I am > running something like the "ms_MY.UTF-8" or "vi_VN.UTF-8" locale and > then do a slogin into a Linux machine ? > I may not understand your question well, if you meant with same UTF-8 locale, there should be no problem; if target env is in legacy locale, we could set charset (Menu->Terminal->Set Character Encoding) in gnome-terminal. For xterm or dtterm, we have to manually use iconv(1) to convert the output to UTF-8 encoding. Actually, it's always a question, if local/remote locales are different. BTW, more and more linux distributions only ship UTF-8 locales, user needs extra steps to generate or install legacy locales. > >> Regarding to the localization of CLI messages, yes, it would be changed >> over time, hopefully by the opensolaris l10n communities. >> >> And for you last question, X11 terminal emulators, I believe the answer >> is Yes, since they are all unicode characters, and we will ship the >> proper fonts. >> > > Please check whether you have _fixed_width_ fonts with all matching > point populated. Many fonts for these languages are either proportional > or don't have all points populated. > Malaysian, Indonesian use Latin characters, no special fonts required. For Vietnamese, from http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/main.html#UNICODE-COMPLIANT%20FONTS, we could see many unicode fonts have cover Vietnamese charset. William, please double check the available fonts. > BTW: What about keyboard mappings and input methods (e.g. VIQR, VNI, > TELEX etc, for Vienamese), e.g. how does an user type characters for > these languages, either within Gnome or without having Gnome installed > (e.g. there is stuff like http://xvnkb.sourceforge.net/ for plain X11 > applications) ? > We already have VIQR input method in IIIMF, and you could add it via iiim-properties(1). IIIMF could serve gtk application, or plain X11 application via XIM interface. For Telex and VNI input methods, they are supported in scim-m17n (www.scim-im.org, www.m17n.org), we are going to integrate SCIM to Solaris/OpenSolaris recently, and planed to integrate m17n and scim-m17n a little later. > ---- > > Bye, > Roland > >
