Re: I18n and localization OpenBSD

[Kamo Hiroyasu <wd@ics.nara-wu.ac.jp>]

From: Marc Espie <espie@schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr>
Subject: Re: I18n and localization OpenBSD
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 19:36:25 +0200

> l10n and i18n are completely separate issues, so please don't mix them up.
> 
> We will probably have some proper locale at some point. It's just that
> the code is not that easy, and opens lots of potential security trapdoors.

We, all who are involved with the locale system, should know that the
locale system itself is a stupid standard.

A naive implementaion of the locale system is multithread-unsafe.  We
need a dirty trick to make the locale system multithread-safe.
Imagine a program with more than one thread such that some messages
under an distinct locale in each thread.

Another point.  M17n is yet another issue and it is a complicated job
to implement m17n on the locale system.  Which locale we shoule choose
for a Russian-Chinese dictionary?

I have heard that Citrus people are working on these hard problem.

		Kamo Hiroyasu
		[Kamo is the family name and Hiroyasu the given name.]