Bug#155059: about charset support
Package: www.debian.org
Version: 2002-08-01
Severity: wishlist
I would like to add a sentence on what is charset support
to cvs/webwml/international/l10n/index.wml, because I think
charset support should be more stressed because (1) it is
the basis of all other i18n/l10n and (2) people tend to
forget laugages (which require special handlings) which are
very different from their own.
The following is the patch. Any comments?
(I have a cvs commit permission. Can I do when discussion
is finished?)
--- index.wml.~1.16.~ 2002-03-26 15:59:34.000000000 +0900
+++ index.wml 2002-08-01 12:29:13.000000000 +0900
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@
change the way the date is printed, you may express the way to do
that in your part of the world. If the i18n allows you to change the
set of characters used, l10n is the act of setting the charset you need
-for a given language.</p>
+for a given language. (Please note that charset support,
+including multibyte, doublewidth, combining, bi-direction, and so on,
+is a prerequisite for all other part of i18n and l10n, including
+translation, for some languages.)</p>
<p>l10n and i18n are tied, but the difficulties related to each of them
are very different. It's not
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Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
"Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
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