How should we deal with a locale for Japanese in Debian 2.0? AFAIK, the XFree86 for the GNU libc are now built without the X_LOCALE macro definition, so their I18N is based on the system locales.
However, in hamm, there is no locale for Japanese provided yet. This may become a large problem for most of Japanese users when Debian 2.0 is out. In fact, some RH 5.0 users in Japan chose to recompile their X libraries and programs with X_LOCALE, which will result in binary incompatibility with others. In this regard, I think it is better to use the system locales in the X Window System than to use X's own ones, so I have tried to define a locale for Japanese. While it is useful to run internationalized X programs, the locale definition I made is very incomplete. It is just because the current locale implementation in the GNU libc cannot handle MBCS in common encodings correctly. I can upload the locale definition as a Debian package, but I am not sure Debian 2.0 should include it. Any comments are welcome. -- Kaz Sasayama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hypercore Software Design, Ltd. <URL:http://www.spice.or.jp/%7Ehypercor/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .