I'm not necessarily the target market for Solaris... so take my comments with a grain of salt.
Still, some competitive info at this moment in time: - The WinXP installers I've worked with install all locale info, but the Asian stuff isn't enabled (and thus I assume compressed somewhere in the installation on the hard disk) by default - In the Mac 10.3 installer (I forget about 10.4) the east asian locales were not installed by default. >From the experiential standpoint: I am a user who uses multiple input methods for multiple languages, and so I'm used to having to dig around to install my needed languages. I understand the concerns for disk space which I assume are the primary motivation for the points above. I doubt the installation times are so different as to cause me grief (maybe 32 vs 30min, at worst :-), so I accept the pain the vendors put me through. (the current Solaris installer does make it a bit of a nuisance for me to say "give me all" though) At the same time, it frustrates me when I walk up to a system and the user didn't put the locale I need on the system. It isn't hard for me to rectify this on Windows, but I do hate mucking with someone's setup just so I can type "hi" to someone. :-) (but, as a technical person, I understand I'm just being bitten by someone's now-outdated concern about saving disk space) Strategic concern: My sense is that the world is getting smaller, and we definitely want more and more folks to be adopting and using OpenSolaris all around the world. To me, that suggests that having all the locales there by default (or getting them there very easily) is strategically important. Practical point: At this point, the desktop experience is not fully localized. Last I saw there's a special separate version of OpenOffice for east asian locales. I don't mean with this post to suggest a particular direction for localization issues. I just wanted to add them to the pot of issues to consier. david This message posted from opensolaris.org
