Stefan Friedrich <strfr@web.de> writes:

I have just seen some distributions here in Taiwan with Chinese Linux Extensions (CLE). What exactly is this? Is it something that can be achieved with the SuSE 8.0 distro and a chinese setup

Mostly yes. But SuSE probably doesn't yet contain as many Chinese specific packages as CLE.

or does it go much deeper such as recompiling the kernel to suit big5?

Big5 is none of the kernels business.

With everything going unicode will this stuff not become obsolete?

I hope that the use of Unicode will increase, it makes many things easier, especially if you need several non-English languages at the same time. But it will probably take a very long time until the old standards will be completely obsolete. Maybe they never will, people tend to stick to the things they are used to. There are still quite a few people using the Fahrenheit temperature scale ... -- Mike Fabian <mfabian@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。