Re: this all this xxx-jp nonsense (was: Re: ITP: grep-ja)

[Changwoo RYU <cwryu@adam.kaist.ac.kr>]

"Ken N." <kenn@applause.nu> writes:

> I've read the patch(grep-2.0-mb1.04.diff.gz). Actually, the patch
> just add a capablity to handle data which coded EUC-JP or Mircosoft-
> Kanji code, and it does not handle even JIS-7bit code (like Junet
> code, see RFC1468).  I suppose that the FSF would reject the patch
> because what GNU wants is more general extention, i.e. m17ned grep.
> 
> Basicaly, making i18ned software is a very difficult work because it
> requires the knowledge of many cultures (language is one of them) in
> the world.  In case there is no easy way to make a software i18ned,
> but still, the Japanese Debian developers may make the software
> Japanized.
> 
> Which is better for Debian, just waiting for the perfect answer of
> i18n, or packaging things what we can do right now regardless of
> partialness of i18n-support?
> 
> The ``grep-ja'' means that that version of grep has a Japanese-
> extention but no more, obviously.  No Korean-extention, no Chinese-
> extention, no m17n completed at all, only Japanese, but it's still
> a part of effort to make Debian i18ned, right?

Just for your information: I'm using grep-ja in EUC-KR environment and
it works well as expected.  I believe it will work in EUC-CN, too.

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Changwoo RYU