Keld wrote: > In Linux,
*Which* Linux? :-) Caldera OpenLinux, Corel Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, Elfstone Linux, Libranet Linux, Linux-Mandrake, Phat Linux, Red Hat Linux, Slackware Linux, Stampede GNU/Linux, Storm Linux, SuSE Linux, or TurboLinux? Or for that matter another dozen international distribution Linuxes, or a half-dozen on the Macintosh? > for a specific locale, it is relatively easy to get the new locale > to work on all off-the-shelf software: you need to write the locale, and > submit it to the glibc people, but then - in about 6 months or so, it > would be available on all mainsteam new Linux distributions, off the > shelf. While most of the Linuxes do make use of GNU/C, they don't all do so at the same levels or with the same versions of glibc, and certainly not all at the same times. > And all applicatuions would adhere to it, given Linux' advanced > i18n technology. I think this is talking through your hat at bit. Do you think that Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 PDF viewer on Linux-Mandrake is going to just automatically pick up an Ethiopic locale setting because I happened to submit a locale proposal to the glibc people 6 months earlier. I don't think so. --Ken
