Re: Internationalizing Linux

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
8 Dec 1998 16:30:06 +0100

Gavin Peters <gpeters@wireless-sys.com> writes:
> I'm thinking here of, for instance, Hebrew which scrolls right to
> left.
>
Not that easy.

> Or, worse yet, Chinese, which scrolls top to bottom, and uses quite
> complex pictographs. Is there an obvious place to put Chinese in the
> framebuffer code?
>
Not that easy again, but only because of the pretty pictures. ;-) Chinese
is usually written left-to-right if you can't (or just don't like to) do
the top-down thing.

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