Thanks for your info. >>Just wondering if anybody knowss how unicode is on Linux? >> >Very good support. Default charset for recent versions of some popular distributions.
What are those popular distributions and which version? >>On Red Hat Linux, if UTF-8 is not made as the default encoding for >>Chnese/Japanese/Korean, what it is using for those double byte languages? >The old multi-byte character sets. So, how should I implement my code? Do I have to say if this is Japanese (for example), convert the unicode (UTF-8) to multi-byte character? That seems very painful. >>Does later Red Had Linux makes the UTF-8 the default encoding for them? AFAIK only if you manually set it to a UTF-8 locale, e.g. LANG=zh-CN.UTF-8. Notice, though, that some older software will not be aware of this change, so many characters will not be displayed properly. So, is this setting available from Red Hat 8.0 or later? Also, you mean some old version of Linux may not aware of this setting? Besides, do you happen to know ICU from IBM? Does it take care of the unicode problems with double byte language for Linux? Thanks, Yiying -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Persson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 1:14 PM To: Shao, Yiying Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: unicode on Linux Shao, Yiying wrote: >Just wondering if anybody knowss how unicode is on Linux? > Very good support. Default charset for recent versions of some popular distributions. >Is unicode ready for all language, including double byte languages, on Red Hat and >SuSe? > Yes. >On Red Hat Linux, if UTF-8 is not made as the default encoding for >Chnese/Japanese/Korean, what it is using for those double byte languages? > The old multi-byte character sets. >Does later Red Had Linux makes the UTF-8 the default encoding for them? > AFAIK only if you manually set it to a UTF-8 locale, e.g. LANG=zh-CN.UTF-8. Notice, though, that some older software will not be aware of this change, so many characters will not be displayed properly. Stefan
