On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Yu Shao wrote:

>Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 21:12:46 +1000
>From: Yu Shao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: James Su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>Subject: Re: [XFree86] Re: Does XFree86-4.2.1 support GB18030.2000?
>
>The first version of GB18030 support was from James Su, based on his 
>patch(I took it from a RPM on openi18n.org), Red Hat firstly supported 
>GB18030 in 7.3 version. What we did were  compound text and XTT 
>backend(basicly from James Su's code), freetype backend support, locale 
>definition support, and other misc stuff like gb2312 encoding and lcUTF8 
>fixes. I haven't looked at that part of code, nor other distro's source 
>since then, but from Turbo's CVS, I think all patches are kind of mixed now.
>
>Red Hat's code has been running pretty good since 7.3 and haven't found 
>any problem,  you can have a look.

Ok, this is good.  I'll add the above info to the top of the 
patch, so that anyone looking at it knows it's history, and who 
all was involved in producing it, etc.

If there are other people who were involved in this effort, 
please let me know, and I'll add their names to the patch as 
well.


-- 
Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat

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