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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:47:26 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: XingFei <xing.fei@fujixerox.co.jp>,
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Subject: Re: linux localization
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > My work will concern with the internationalization of Linux
> > So, could anybody tell me what kinds of features should be in the
> > consideration when linux be localized from english to Japanese or chinese,
> > say using 2 bytes character set.
> 
> Most of the Linux userspace libraries are set up for handling UTF8 and
> other internationalisations. Fonts are more of an issue and lack of
> application translations. Filenames are defined to be UTF8.

An appropriate mailing list for i18n would be

	linux-utf8@nl.linux.org

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cheers,

Rik
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