internationalisation (was: Horde - Imp)

[daniel]

On May 20, 2004 04:11 pm, Noah John Gellner wrote:
> On a related note, I think that internationalization settings are a
> tremendous weakness for Linux. The various input methods pale in
> comparison to the offering from Redmond, overall integration is terrible,
> and the documentation is sparse and vague. I have been trying to get my
> installed Japanese fonts working with Java and it is a complete nightmare.
> Running java applets is presently my main reason for using Windows. Sorry
> for the rant, but the state of affairs drives me crazy.

while i'm about as unilingual as you could get, i've found that the 
availability of multiple character sets and languages is handled pretty well 
in kde.  a friend of mine came over to my english-only computer, logged into 
her korean msn account through kopete and had no issues reading the names of 
all her friends in korean.  i didn't have the korean keyboard layout 
installed (for obvious reasons) but i would think the transition would be 
just as easy.

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