Well , Here in Sweden we have about ten characters like ÄÖÅÉÜ äöåéü
thats used in standard typed text in swedish
these characters have the eight bit in the byte turned on in the code ,
ie. their value is above 127 decimal or 80 hex.
Most non-english languages have a small set of so called accented
characters that does not fit in the lower half of the codeset
During the history of operatingsystems "made in english" there has
always been smart bright university students that creates these
marvellous new piecies of code that works very well in english, but is
almost unusable/unsellable anywhere else .
Whats most surprising really, is that I have never heard of an operating
system written in any other language than English. and I have been
the computer support business for 28 years by now.
Anyway, looking at this
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access/HP052579281033.aspx
it becomes evident that the hebrew characters are mapped from hex E0 to
FA in codepage 1255 in windows.
I tried creating a file on a USB mem in VISTA64 and I named the file "
räksmörgås.txt "
I then moved the USB mem to Solaris Express CE build 90 and the file
name looks like :
/media/MEMSTICK/räksmörgås.txt
So even if the filename is somewhat reminiscent of the original its
quite unreadable.
So this is an internationalisation bug in solaris. thanks to the smart
bright english university students
that were never forced to learn any additional languages.
So this bug is not only a Hebrew problem , it hits all non-english
languages in various impact depending on the number of
characters above hex 80 in the codepage,
Someone on the list reported that this was solved in SXCE/OpenSolaris ,
I belive I just demonstrated that its not.
If there is not a formal bug report on this we need to create one.
Regards / lehitraot
Lars
tami wrote:
Hi,
Does any of you have experience with this subject?
Thanks,
Tami
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