> And since you ENVISION Solaris to be an enterprise OS > and Sun should pay its engineers to focus things more > "IMPORTANT," why do you have gripes with "garbled" > date format string in JDS running in zh_CN locale? > > > Ivan.
Sorry I didn't mean to ignore your question. There is a long story. To make it short, Honolulu city councilman Rod Tam, who chairs the business committee, and I have been running a project (both on pro bono basis) to try to establish Hawaii as a Linux-related business/culture center serving the Asia-Pacific region. We believe the unique multi-cultural feature of Hawaii, our geographic location, as well as the Chinese American ethnicity of both of us, should give us an advantage. As part of our effort we have set up a Linux demo in case any foreign (mainly from China) dignatory shows an interest. It turned out that no one (zero) from China is interested in Linux (I promise I will get to this subject at a later time). Last year, I began putting together an OpenSolaris demo. As I mentioned in a separate post, I seemed to be able to attract their attention. I have also tried to do a show and tell whenever I am in China and/or Taiwan. "Garbled" date format string in JDS running in zh_CN locale of course has no effect on how jobs get done. But for the purpose of doing demonstrations, it will prohibitively put our city (& Sun) in shame. It is unimportant from an engineer's point of view, but critically important from ours. Silly as it sounds, that's the way life is. As of Build 65, this "garbled date format string" problem in Chinese locales has been solved. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
