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- From: kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.010423.18938@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 01:04:23 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.235809.15484@midway.uchicago.edu> <agp22+#@rpi.edu> <EPS.92Dec21153020@rieska.oulu.fi>
- Organization: University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science
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- >Problem is that programs have to be started through windowing system. Therefore
- >this schema doesn't suit for Linux, even though it could be possible to make
- >an special window manager for X+Linux to support full localization, but this
- >would make Linux incompatible.
-
- X has already support for automatically selecting resources based on
- users language, so you don't need any special window managers for this.
-
- For non-X programs, much can be done with extensive use of the locale
- functions and using some configuration files to contain the texts the
- program outputs.
-
- By the way, the X resource manager is a separate module, which can be
- used by non-X programs, too. I think it would be nice to use it in text
- based programs, so all the configuration files would have the same
- syntax. And if you have a text and window version of a program, they
- could share the same configuration file.
-
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