W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
However, the Chinese
version of Solaris Express looks ugly.
Some qualifications are necessary:
1. At least in Fedora and SuSE, the two Linux distros that I use the most, I
have to do certain tweakings to get the Chinese display fonts I like. The
default Chinese fonts
> During my recent trip to China and Taiwan, I sensed
> a definitive increase in willingness in governmental
> officials to move away from Windows. Most of them
> seem to have only Linux in mind, but the timing of
> the recent drive to make Solaris more Linux-like, &
> the opening of the China Op
> 2. The problem is that, for some reason and at least
> in Firefox and Thunderbird, the English (western)
> fonts (at least in the dialog window) are changed to
> monospace fonts when running in the Chinese locale (&
> I don't seem to be able to change that). For those
> of us who are so used to
> However, the Chinese
> version of Solaris Express looks ugly.
Some qualifications are necessary:
1. At least in Fedora and SuSE, the two Linux distros that I use the most, I
have to do certain tweakings to get the Chinese display fonts I like. The
default Chinese fonts in the Chinese locale
> But the fact that you cannot save a file in
> StarOffice/OpenOffice if contains certain Chinese
> characters, makes Solaris Express _unusable_ as a
> desktop OS.
A more correct statement should be:
But the fact that you cannot save a file in StarOffice/OpenOffice if --the file
name-- contains
As of SXCE 63, I am glad to report that Sun finally stops calling Taiwan a
"Province of China". However, the rest of the problems I reported in a
separate thread still remain. For example, in the CN locale, the GNOME desktop
still shows current month and date as "%-m月" and "%-d日", respectively
