Re: Setting Deafult Font Size in X

[jwb@example.com (Jim Breen)]

>> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>
>> >>>>> "Kinichi" == Kinichi  <kitano@example.com> writes:
>> 
>>     Kinichi> Some pepople might miss some Japanese patches included in
>>     Kinichi> Vine or Kondara.
>> 
>> If they do, they should write properly internationalized equivalents
>> instead of seeking Japanese patches.  

Hear, hear. I can see the problem though, it's often easier in a big
project to generate a set of Japanese patches than to go into battle in
a foreign language (i.e. English) and convince the developers to make a
heap of changes they will never use and probably can't even test.

>> See the "kinput2/xim idiocy"
>> thread.  I've read that code, and I attribute kinput2's congenital
>> brain damage to the "incestuous knowledge" (Wiley, you are such a
>> voyeur)-- kinput2 is not an XIM application, it is a Japanese
>> application with XIM patches.

I have no trouble with kinput2 as a localized application. I have been
using it for 10 years in that mode. The problems occur where kinput2
collides with xim. And the problem seems to lie with XIM and the gruesome
mess that calls itself I18N in the Unix world.

>> Yes, Japanese is different.  But it's not Spaniards or Croatians who
>> pay the price of "Japanese exceptionalism," it's us Japanese users.
>> And especially those of us who are (admittedly only approximately, in
>> my case) multilingual.

First we need (a) a revamp of the locale structures and rules so that
I18N can really happen, and (b) a change of mind-set on the part of many
open-source developers, who still live in a world where software is
By_Americans_For_Americans, and I18N means supporting ISO-8859-1 at
most.

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Jim Breen  [jwb@example.com  http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/]
Visiting Professor, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of 
Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
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