Re: I18n and localization OpenBSD

["qwerty" <igrish@vttc.donpac.ru>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Kamo Hiroyasu <wd@ics.nara-wu.ac.jp>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: I18n and localization OpenBSD


> 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.]