Questions about Chinese i18n (zh_TW.Big5 locale)
Hello! :-)
I received an e-mail last week from Tung-Han Hsieh, the current main
author of the excellent xcin-2.3.04 package, the X Chinese INput
server. As he develops xcin-2.5, which will be compliant with C and
X11's locale standards, he is also actively involved in the Chinese
Linux Extension (CLE) Project as they strive towards I18N/L10N for the
Chinese community. They have incorporated the zh_TW.Big5 locale into
glibc-2.1, but are running into some problems.
Here is my rough translation of his e-mail message. (My English isn't
that good, so I hope I didn't make too many mistakes or misinterpret
Tung-Han's words. :-) His original message in Chinese is after the
translated one. :-) Thanks for your help! :-)
----- Forwarded message from Tung-Han Hsieh <thhsieh@twcpro.phys.ntu.edu.tw> -----
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 14:28:22 +0800
From: Tung-Han Hsieh <thhsieh@twcpro.phys.ntu.edu.tw>
To: foka@ualberta.ca
Subject: Questions about i18n
X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.2
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Hello,
Recently, many of us have been working on the [Chinese] zh_TW.Big5
locale on Linux. This locale requires glibc-2.1. (Although it could
be used under glibc-2.0.7 using libwcsmbs, but since glibc-2.1 is out
already, that possibility is not being considered.) We already have our
own locale-def file, but there are still some problems under glibc-2.1.
We don't know where to find help, so I would like to ask you first.
Here is my question: Could I give you a copy of our locale-def to
Debian's glibc-2.1 maintainer(s) or the i18n group for testing? If you
find that it could be a bug in glibc-2.1, could Debian help fix the
bug, and then forward the bug report or patch to GNU? And when the
problem is corrected, could Debian accept our zh_TW.Big5 file as part
of the official release? To whom should I report these problems? Or
should I discuss with GNU (FSF) directly?
Actually, I don't feel too comfortable to contact GNU/FSF directly
since my copy of glibc-2.1 has been patched by Debian and may not be
the latest version, so I am not sure how to report the problem, and
would like to ask you [Debian developers] for help.
Thanks in advance! :-))
T.H.Hsieh
----- End forwarded message -----
The following is the Tung-Han's original message in Big5 (traditional
Chinese) encoding:
----- Forwarded message from Tung-Han Hsieh <thhsieh@twcpro.phys.ntu.edu.tw> -----
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 14:28:22 +0800
From: Tung-Han Hsieh <thhsieh@twcpro.phys.ntu.edu.tw>
To: foka@ualberta.ca
Subject: 有關 i18n 問題
X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.2
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
您好:
好久沒聯絡了。最近我們有很多人在做 Linux 上的 zh_TW.Big5 locale,
這個 locale 最起碼要在 glibc-2.1 上才能用 (在 glibc-2.0.7 雖然可
以藉由 libwcsmbs 來使用，但既然 glibc-2.1 已經出來了，所以就不列
入考慮) ，我們已有自己的 locale-def 檔，但在 glibc-2.1 下仍然有
問題。我們不知道要到那裏尋求幫助，所以想先問您一聲。
我想問的是，我可不可以將我們的 locale-def 檔交給 Debian 的 glibc-2.1
維護者或專門維護 i18n 小組的人來測試? 如果發現可能是 glibc-2.1 的 bug
的話， Debian 能不能先代為修正，然後再將問題或 patch 反應給 GNU? 如
果最後問題修正了之後， Debian 能不能開始收我們的 zh_TW.Big5 檔，成
為正式 release 的一部分? 這類問題我該找誰反應? 還是說我應該直接與
GNU 總部談?
事實上，我不太敢直接找 GNU 總部，原因是我手邊的 glibc-2.1 都是 Debian
patch 過的，而且也一定不是最新的 glibc-2.1 版本，所以我不曉得該如何
反應問題，所以想向您們尋求幫助。
在此先說聲謝謝。 :-))
T.H.Hsieh
----- End forwarded message -----
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