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

[Yong Sun]

Hi, Roland,

This project is targeting to Indiana 2008.11 release, UTF-8 locales have 
higher priority than legacy locales, we will gather more 
information/feedback to see if we have future plans for legacy locales.

Regarding to the localization of CLI messages, yes, it would be changed 
over time, hopefully by the opensolaris l10n communities.

And for you last question, X11 terminal emulators, I believe the answer 
is Yes, since they are all unicode characters, and we will ship the 
proper fonts.

Regards,

Roland Mainz 写道:
> 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)
>
> ----
>
> Bye,
> Roland
>
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