Re: locale-zh
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:11:57AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
> > I know there is a whole bunch of problems with Chinese support in woody at
> > the moment with respect to the new glibc 2.2 and XFree86 4.0.1 upload. I
> > wish I have more time to address them now, but probably won't have time to
> > do so until December. (School projects deadline coming up very
> > quickly...)
... and my final exam for this year is on next Monday. I'll probably be
able to work on Debian again at last... and I finally became an official
maintainer yesterday. Just in time! :p
> My final thesis is due tomorrow!!! Please let me know what I can muck
> around to improve the Chinese support in woody. I will devote my next 3
> months entirely to woody...
There are at least a few problems in woody regarding Chinese support:
* the xfonts-arphic-* packages. As you probably know, XFree86 4 is now
in woody, and it has TrueType support built in. You might want to
have a look and see if that can be used instead of xfs-xtt.
I haven't looked too much into this yet, as the X-TT module in X4
lacks the BIG5HKSCS module :(
* Encoding naming conventions. Currently different spellings of "Big5",
"big5", "BIG5", "big-5" etc etc are all over the place. We need to
agree on a standard capitalization of this (probably big5), and
see which package(s) are affected.
* See what prevents a user from using Chinese right away after a fresh
install of/upgrade to woody.
* hmm .. that's all I can think of right now...
As you can see, there're still a few rough edges ... (what a gross
understatement :p) Let's make this a goal for woody: that a user can
work in a totally Chinese environment straight away! :D
BTW, good luck on your thesis!
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Aha! G'day from Melbourne! :)
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