Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:27:23 +0300
From: Andrey A. Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To: Niklas Johannes Saers <niklasjs@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Internationalization

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 14:10:14 +0100, Niklas Johannes Saers wrote:

> being responsible for internationalization. I have been unable to dig up
> much information regarding this role, and I was wondering what kinds of
> tasks and responsabilities come along with it?
>
> Also, was this a role given by core, a role you took upon yourself or one
> suggested by someone else?

This role apperase in most natural way, since those times I am only person
in the project who interested in l10n subject enough to produce patches
and writting code. It happens because my native language, Russian, was not
supported in many places in the kernel and apps. The wish to implement it
properly comes to careful examination of various aspects of the POSIX
localization model for single byte charsets. I am volunteer taking this
task and others agrees with it. With this knowledge, currently I check all
things I see regarding to single byte l10n and produce my own too. But
situation is far for perfect, since we don't have person who takes this
task for multibyte, i.e. asian charsets and for Unicoding whole OS.

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