Re: tlug: Need info. about Japanese and Linux

[Uchida.Masatomo@example.com, <masatomo@example.com>]

Hello everybody,
 According to Fredric's address I remembered an article about Mydata products
on Linux Journal. I read it nearly a year ago. I was impressed.

> We don't exactly use RedHat 4.1. We _base_ our own distribution on
> rpm's that comes from RH 4.1. When we started the project 4.1 was the
> latest release. When changes has been made that made sense for us
> to include (like new kernel releases, new versions of HW drivers etc) 
> we have included them. 
> The only problem we have with Redhat 4.1 is that it uses an old libc
> and not glibc.
> The customer does not know anything about this. He buys a machine
> does not care about these details.
 Lots of Japanese software is based on Redhat4.2. So Redhat 4.1 doesn't
matter to display Japanese.

> Nobody, I hope. I have not seen a 486 in years but I hear they make
> good web servers with Linux/apache. It is, however, still possible to 
> run a character based interface on a PII 450 ;-).
 I'm afraid those who looks at character based interface might think
the inside CPU is 486. Your competitors are using GUI interface,
aren't they?

> >  There are three codes in Japanese characters. They are JIS, SJIS and
> > EUC. To convert codes there's a converter called 'nkf'.
> Are these codes 8-bit? My concern is if I can fit it inside our 
> current system of language-specific text files.
 They are 16-bit (JIS is 14-bit). More than 3000 characters are used
in Japanese language. So it's impossible to use 8-bit codes. There are
8-bit codes to display parts of characters. But recently they are rarely used.

Cheers,

Masa Uc^ida Masatomo,Hidaka,Saitama,Japanio

<http://www1.nisiq.net/~masatomo>
<http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/linux>
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