From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262883AbTDKI3G (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 04:29:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264161AbTDKI3G (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 04:29:06 -0400 Received: from mail.hometree.net ([212.34.181.120]:50378 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262883AbTDKI3F (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 04:29:05 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: kernel support for non-english user messages Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 08:40:48 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: References: <200304102036.h3AKa837025670@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <1050034996.23950.21.camel@zaphod> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1050050448 15563 212.34.181.4 (11 Apr 2003 08:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 08:40:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2003 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Shaya Potter writes: >yes, yes. I of course agree, just saying that if someone really wanted >to do it, banging out a skeleton solution that can be filled in >shouldn't be "that" hard. Getting it "right"(tm) would be tougher, but >I think doable. The reason I think no one has done it, is because no >one is really that interested. The main problem of open source software development and open source programming is, that most developers bang out a cool "skeleton solution" or a "two weeks project" and after that, hope that some volunteers will fill up the spaces that they left when they turned to the next "cool skeleton solution". Thats' why 90+% of the project on sf are dead and of the rest, most are in a "beta" state. Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire