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Re: Default language for system



Marek Habersack <grendel@vip.net.pl> writes:

> > But even if (a) and (b) are solved, boot floppy should not set
> > LANG variable for Japanese.  It is because there are many environments
> > which cannot display Japanese such as Linux console, xterm, Eterm,
> Even with unicode?
> 
> > are available in X, and so on so on.  But I have not heard that any
> > Japanese distribution can use Japanese characters for file names (Of
> > course MS-Windows can do).
> Again, if you use Unicode, it's possible.

With unicode what?  Linux console with Unicode?  New file system with
Unicode (like MS's fs)?  X program which uses Unicode for its
encoding?  I know few Linux programs which use Unicode.  And I've
never seen any program which fully implemented iso-10646 (even on
MS-Windows).

It's possible, but now it's not.  What we can do now is just using the
best "available" solution.

-- 
Changwoo RYU


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