Re: multi-lingual support under Unix


Subject: Re: multi-lingual support under Unix
From: Mike Nordell (tamlin@algonet.se)
Date: Sat Dec 30 2000 - 12:43:32 CST


Tomas Frydrych wrote:
I wrote:
> > This is the responsibility of the OS/user-environment as I see it. It is
not
> > something every application should implement by itself (just think of
the
> > bloat).
>
> That is fine if the OS provides what you need, but as far as I can
> see Linux does not in this respect

I'd be *really* surprised if it did, since Linux is "only" the kernel,
device drivers and such. The "OS" in this case would be the X-Free86 input
model. If they haven't provided ways to input other than ASCII, maybe some
of ouy X developers should start lobbying for this?

/Mike - please don't cc



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