Locale for Japanese?
How should we deal with a locale for Japanese in Debian 2.0?
AFAIK, the XFree86 for the GNU libc are now built without
the X_LOCALE macro definition, so their I18N is based on the
system locales.
However, in hamm, there is no locale for Japanese provided
yet. This may become a large problem for most of Japanese
users when Debian 2.0 is out. In fact, some RH 5.0 users in
Japan chose to recompile their X libraries and programs with
X_LOCALE, which will result in binary incompatibility with
others.
In this regard, I think it is better to use the system
locales in the X Window System than to use X's own ones, so
I have tried to define a locale for Japanese. While it is
useful to run internationalized X programs, the locale
definition I made is very incomplete. It is just because
the current locale implementation in the GNU libc cannot
handle MBCS in common encodings correctly.
I can upload the locale definition as a Debian package, but
I am not sure Debian 2.0 should include it.
Any comments are welcome.
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Kaz Sasayama <Kaz.Sasayama@hypercore.co.jp>
Hypercore Software Design, Ltd. <URL:http://www.spice.or.jp/%7Ehypercor/>
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