Re: khmer and debian
Hi,
At Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:21:25 +0900,
Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> What encoding (charset) do you usually use for Khmer?
> If you use UTF-8 or other encodings which Debian and
> Linux already supports, you don't have to care about
> this region. However, if you have your local popular
> charset, you may want to add the support of the charset
> for GNU libc and XFree86. Now, I assume you use UTF-8.
I found that there IS a local Khmer encoding but it is
different (incompatible) with Unicode.
http://www.bauhahnm.clara.net/Khmer/Welcome.html#ODDENCODING
Since GNU libc use Unicode (UCS-4) internally, encodings which
are incompatible (inconvertable) to Unicode cannot be used.
(You have to supply a mapping table to Unicode to add a support
of an encoding.) Thus, the local Khmer encoding cannot be
supported by Debian. You must use UTF-8.
I heard that BSD people are developing more flexible locale
system which can handle non-Unicode-compatible encodings.
---
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
"Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
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