Re: [m17n] Internatinal Language Support of SuSE (Pathetic)

HEY! I have the passion, too! I can't think of running an OS without CJK support well integrated (particularly Japanese). Keep doing the good work Fabian! GAMBAREYO! On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 1:48PM -0500, ghugh Song wrote:

Hi,

It is my impression that just a few people are interested in internationalization of Linux such as Mike Fabian and Jeongshik Shin.

One evidence is that every SuSE distribution has had the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/ko/Compose.

It should be removed. Otherwise ami (the Korean language input method ) gives no effect. Yet, on every version of SuSE, I had to hand-remove this file. Even funny is that inside this file, there is a warning message against tampering.

What is going on?

I considered the above instance as the pathetic reality of the internationalization effort which is going on inside SuSE.

Frustration does not stop here. I will mention just two very frustrating cases:

****Printing ******** I have wished printing Korean characters directly without doing special from mozilla for a very very looooong time. It never happened in all the SuSE distributions up to 8.1. There were promises. Well, they were promises only. All those howto file made by local gurus turned out to be not woking due to distribution changes. They are pretty much focused on RedHat distributions.

****Evolution********* A nice software called Evolutin by Ximian is suppoesed to work with Asian languages (such as Korean in my case.)

However, when I grab the executable (Evolution-1.2.2) and try to run it. Something funny is going on.

I can type in Korean characters and they show up nicely as I type Korean characters That means the fonts are there and are working properly. However, as soon as I type <space>, the well-viewed Korean characters suddenly change into an <underscoe>, and nothing shows up.

The Evolution-1.0.2 provided by SUSE 8.1 does not have this problem. However, such an old version does not support evolution-pilot program which is the whole point of using evolution.

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Admittedly, everything is not controlled by SuSE. I can see that gtk-2.2 or something must have a bug.

Now, it is by now evident that many things do not work as they supposed to. However not many people really are concerned with it. Only Mike and Jeongshik Shin. All the rest do not seem to care. They might try it, however after finding that it does not work for them, they give up on Linux and continue using Microsoft Windows.

That is the pattern I have been finding all years. It did not change.

Regards to all.

-- ghugh Song MIT

PS: Did I mention that I still will appreciate any solutions to the two above-mentioned problems? Please help.

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