On 2/27/07, W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Simplified Chinese Solaris User's Guide:
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2523
> ditional Chinese Solaris User's Guide:
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2524
> pe these 2 guides are useful to you.
(For some reason I was unable to post anything on the i18 forum, some of the
forum bugs seem to be acting again.)
I was actually very excited to discover both above-listed books last year, and have
printed a hard copy for both. But because, as far as input methods are concerned,
things have changed so much, I found neither book relevant, although they indeed
contain very useful information otherwise & I have enjoyed reading them.
I spent the entire weekend playing with the various Chinese locales. I must say that
"mess" is not the right word, I am hopelessly depressed. (The ja_JP locale,
however, seems to work quite well--this is where I am posting this message from.)
For starters, the simplified Chinese locales (both unicode and non-unicode) couldn't even show the
date right on the GNOME desktop (see attached screenshot; in case I am unable to post a screenshot,
the date was garbled, shown as %-m "month" and %-d "day", but no problem with
either the en_US or ja_JP locale.) I remember seeing this kind of problem a lot on Linux desktops,
but I have to set the clock back at least 10 years.
With respect to the traditional Chinese locale, I am really SHOCKED. If I
didn't know Sun well enough, I might think Sun is dangerously trying to play
the role of a political suicide bomber.
Sun is playing this role since years. Go to the shell and try to
process characters outside the ASCII range with tools like /usr/bin/tr
or /usr/bin/awk. Even these MAJOR tools are not capable to process
Chinese or Japanese characters - and Sun refuses to solve the problem,
citing backwards compatibility as justification.
You can put /usr/xpg4/bin to your PATH variable to work around the
problem but the system defaults remain in a state where Sun is playing
the role of a political suicide bomber.
Irek
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