From: Stefan Persson (alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel@yahoo.se)
Date: Mon Oct 20 2003 - 14:14:22 CST
Shao, Yiying wrote:
>Just wondering if anybody knowss how unicode is on Linux?
>
Very good support. Default charset for recent versions of some popular
distributions.
>Is unicode ready for all language, including double byte languages, on Red Hat and SuSe?
>
Yes.
>On Red Hat Linux, if UTF-8 is not made as the default encoding for Chnese/Japanese/Korean, what it is using for those double byte languages?
>
The old multi-byte character sets.
>Does later Red Had Linux makes the UTF-8 the default encoding for them?
>
AFAIK only if you manually set it to a UTF-8 locale, e.g.
LANG=zh-CN.UTF-8. Notice, though, that some older software will not be
aware of this change, so many characters will not be displayed properly.
Stefan
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