Re: tlug: KDE & Japanese

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Oliver M. Bolzer wrote:

> On 16:26 99/02/19, Darren Cook wrote...
> > I've been browsing www.kde.org. I've a couple of questions the site didn't
> > answer (at least not as far as I could see):
> 
> > 3.How is the Japanese support?
> 
> Officially it doesn't support Japanese, because Qt, the underlying library,
> doesn't support multi-byte chars and the licence doesn't allow modifications
> or distributions patches for Qt (source available, but non open-source)
> 
> But, nevertheless, there's a nice (unofficial, gray-zone) patch that
> adds support for Japanese (I18n, not L10n) Patch Qt and just recompile
> KDE. Was quite a nice view when KDE came up in Japanese
> 
> http://karin.ip.titech.ac.jp/~takagi/kde-jp/ 
> 
> Qt 2.0 is going to be supporting Japanese and other multi-byte character
> codes. Qt is open source (can be argued, but defnetly so compared with before)
> and developpment is going on, including contributions from Japan to make
> multi-byte correct.
> But still KDE with Qt2 is most likely more than a year away.

KDE supports Chinese right now.  How could it do that if it didn't do
double-byte?

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux English / Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc. (http://www.turbolinux.com)


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