On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 13:56 +0100, Dylan wrote:
On Monday 20 Sep 2010, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
We have had a request from a potential user if they can use openSUSE in Russian. I see support, so I know there is something. I think the main area of use would be KDE on openSUSE 11.2.
Does anyone on this list use openSUSE 11.2 / KDE in Russian? Is the support usable?
KDE works very well with various language settings - I know people who use it in Slovak and English on the same and separate user accounts with no problems. The filesystem (ext3 and 4 at least) and dolphin etc have no problems with the character encodings (I receive files with Polish, Slovak and Russian filenames from various places, and have some in various Chinese encodings) but some commandline utilities *may* throw errors, especially 'quick hack' shell scripts. Also, exchanging these files with Windows is sometimes problematic - vfat formatted USB sticks being the major sticking point I've come across. The only complaint I've heard is that some (usually little used) menu and dialog options are untranslated and so default to English, and of course non KDE apps will have their own possible issues (Openoffice, for example.)
OpenOffice has a Russian variant. I set the interface language to Russian and it did that. I also set the default document language to Russian. I have not tried to share files with a Russain Word. Still, this will not be a major use for this system. I think file names will be the biggest issue. And, I bet vfat will be the transfer medium of choice. So that is perhaps where I need to spend a bit of time investigating. As a first step, I sent a ksnapshot file of the Russian desktop. ksnapshot offered "снимок1.png" as the file name. I left it that way and attached it to an e-mail message sent from evolution. It will go to an MS Exchange user. Time for a variation on the cocktail party effect. I wonder where the name will break. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org