> Simplified Chinese Solaris User's Guide: > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2523 > ditional Chinese Solaris User's Guide: > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2524 > pe these 2 guides are useful to you.
(For some reason I was unable to post anything on the i18 forum, some of the forum bugs seem to be acting again.) I was actually very excited to discover both above-listed books last year, and have printed a hard copy for both. But because, as far as input methods are concerned, things have changed so much, I found neither book relevant, although they indeed contain very useful information otherwise & I have enjoyed reading them. I spent the entire weekend playing with the various Chinese locales. I must say that "mess" is not the right word, I am hopelessly depressed. (The ja_JP locale, however, seems to work quite well--this is where I am posting this message from.) For starters, the simplified Chinese locales (both unicode and non-unicode) couldn't even show the date right on the GNOME desktop (see attached screenshot; in case I am unable to post a screenshot, the date was garbled, shown as %-m "month" and %-d "day", but no problem with either the en_US or ja_JP locale.) I remember seeing this kind of problem a lot on Linux desktops, but I have to set the clock back at least 10 years. With respect to the traditional Chinese locale, I am really SHOCKED. If I didn't know Sun well enough, I might think Sun is dangerously trying to play the role of a political suicide bomber. The problem is so serious that I don't feel comfortable or even appropriate to describe it in public. Several years ago, Red Hat made a related mistake (but several orders of magnitude less serious), by failing to include the Taiwan flag in its KDE language dialog window. To this day, RedHat/Fedora is still boycotted by the Taiwanese government. This action, if publicly exposed, will not sit well with the Chinese government, either. China is doing everything possible to maintain the current cross-strait stability; it has no appetite for trouble instigators. One way or another. I guess it is unfair for me to make a big fuss that there is a problem (while NO ONE appears to think so), but refuse to even give a hint of what the problem entails. I don't think I can adequately describe the seriousness of this problem, but have someone make a multi-locale installation of Solaris (my comments are based on Build 56). Thereafter, log-in under the traditional Chinese locale. Some words will show up. Mention these words to a Taiwanese official, & I can guarantee you that whoever does that, he or she will be immediately escorted out of the building, if not the country. We should feel blessed that the difficulties in downloading and installing Solaris has pretty much kept this highly sensitive oversight from being exploded/exploited. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
