Re: zh_HK.Big5 locale
Hello ÃiÃiÂy¤H,
Thursday, January 06, 2000, 12:21:48 PM, you wrote:
Ã> Hello everyone,
Ã> I have prepared a Hong Kong locale definition. It's available at:
Ã> http://spacehunt.e-fever.dhs.org/hklocale.tar.gz
Great to hear that!
Ã> Note that this is not enough to be able to use HKSCS: fonts with HKSCS
Ã> characters are needed; if using xfs-xtt, xfs-xtt also needs to be patched.
Ã> Even with all that, for some reason, it still doesn't work with GTK...
I wonder what the license status for the HKSCS reference font. Since
it is provided by the Hong Kong SAR government, we have a chance to
use it as a free (Freedom) font. Then the font for the extended
charset could be extracted and ported to Linux. Maybe there should be
a seperated font class for the HKSCS in xlocale, this I am not sure.
Ã> However, since HKSCS itself is still a non-standard extension to Big5,
Ã> is this a right thing to do?
I think it is a good thing. One of our goal is to provide convenient
Chinese environment under Linux. A lot of HK users will benefit
from this locale right now. Beside, it will not be hard to
update to the standard later on.
my 2 cents.
Best regards,
hashao mailto:hashao@telebot.com
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