Re: Linux/Mozilla related Short-Term Contract

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "cs" == Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com> writes:

    cs> Hmmm ... can anyone think of a Japanization project that had
    cs> its work committed into the main source tree (I'll stipulate
    cs> FSF Emacs, but look how long it took that to happen)?

XEmacs 20.0.  XIM.  XOM.  IIIMF.  Wnn was distributed in mit/contrib
for X11R5 IIRC.  The GTK+ I18N as I mentioned shows definite stigmata
of its Japanese source.

It's very amusing that the Japanization of XEmacs (that was Sun's
goal) was done by a couple of gaijin, whereas all the others are true
I18N but Japanese products (except XOM which is only about 1/2
Japanese, and Wnn which was hardcore L10N but serendipitously turned
out to be quite generalizable).

However, these are all very general infrastructure kinds of things.
All of the specific apps I know of (kterm, kinput2, gs-vflib, ptex,
jtex, xdvi-ja, dvips-ja, tcsh, *vi*-ja, XTT, jpine, jgrep, jawk, jsed,
jperl, *wm-ja, ...) have basically been passed over in favor of
from-scratch approaches for I18N.  Japan-specific stuff (kon, kakasi,
namazu, ...) rarely seems to be used as a base for generalization; I
can't think of any examples.

    cs> Trying to do this with mozilla may not provide the result that
    cs> you desire.

I have to agree with that.  I use Mozilla daily, but I don't like it,
it's just the least bad of a bad lot.


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