On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 09:07:52AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > You use terminology very rigorously and I use it very roughly. Yes. I'm a pedant. :) > As I am not a man in the computer science world so my terminology > might be not the standard. My intention is, roughly, like follows. > > i18n =(or nearly equal) set of appropriate localization This is wrong. Localization is localization. Internationalization is not localization. A program must be i18n'ed before it can be l10n'ed, though. > =(or nearly equal) support of multi-byte character This is better, but it is only one component of proper internationalization. A properly internationalized program is not only capable of presenting textual information in a format appropriate to the user's locale (this includes being able to render the correct glyphs, proper directionality, etc.), but it must also be cognizant of things like local standards for formatting of numeric, currency, and time/date information. > that is, in case of window manager, the main point is the capability > of presenting multi-byte character. Again, like I have said before -- I agree that it is good for a window manager to be multibyte character aware. However, unless it has also been localized, it is not of particular use to the end user. (A multibyte character-aware window manager is easier for a programmer to work with, if he wants to localize it for his locale.) > If i18n is not an appropriate technical term please choose any > term you think appropriate. I do not care much what technical term > you will select. I think you are concerned more with localization. After all, what do you think the end user cares about more? A) "Is my window manager multibyte-character aware?"; or B) "Can my window manager use the Japanese language for its window titles and menus?" I think you're more concerned about B) than A). The alternatives priority mechanism is not cognizant of locales, so I don't think we can support your idea at present. It wouldn't do any good to promote an i18n'ed window manager that supports Japanese well to a user who wants to see Han instead. -- G. Branden Robinson | <joeyh> oh my, it's a UP P III. Debian GNU/Linux | <doogie> dos it. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | * joeyh runs dselect roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | <Overfiend> that ought to be sufficient :)
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