Adding Malaysian, Indonesian, Vietnamese UTF-8 locales [PSARC/2008/420FastTrack timeout 07/11/2008]

[Roland Mainz]

Yong Young Sun wrote:
[snip] 
> 2. Project Summary
>    2.1. Project Description:
>         Add the following South East Asia locales support to current
>         OpenSolaris.
>         Malaysian:   ms_MY.UTF-8
>         Indonesian:  id_ID.UTF-8
>         Vietnamese:  vi_VN.UTF-8

Are there any plans to add a "vi_VN.TCVN" locale for interoperabilty
with Linux and other operating systems ?

>         Add VISCII and TCVN code conversion feature in iconv library. So that
>         the bidirectional conversion between VISCII,TCVN, and UTF-8/UCS4(2)
>         will be supported in iconv(1) and iconv(3).
> 
> 3. Business Summary
>    3.5. Opportunity Window/Exposure:
>         Solaris Nevada
>         Project Indiana
> 
> 4. Technical Description
>    4.1. Details:
[snip] 
>           * CLI (Command Line Interface) messages:
>             The localization for Solaris system libraries and utilities in Malaysian,
>             Indonesian and Vietnamese are not available.

Will this be changed over time ?

>           * L10N status for major GUI components by communities
> 
>                               Malaysian    Indonesian    Vietnamese
>             --------------------------------------------------------------
>             Gnome[3]          Yes          Yes           Yes
>             Firefox [10]      N/A          Yes           N/A
>             Thunderbird [11]  N/A          N/A           N/A
>             Openoffice [14]   Yes [12]     N/A           Yes [13]
> 
>             The localization contents for these three languages of gnome had been
>             integrated in package SUNWgnome-l10nmessages-extra on Solaris.

One thing which is AFAIK missing here is the support status for X11
terminal emulators, e.g. can characters in these locales properly
displayed in:
1) xterm
2) dtterm
3) gnome-terminal (this may be optional since gnome-terminal has _huge_
issues with non-ASCII characters anyway)

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Bye,
Roland

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