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20050420 Wednesday April 20, 2005

So this is goodbye... Well, there is a reason this blog has not been updated for so long. I've been rather busy wrapping up stuff here, there and everywhere. Oh, and it's my last day today. I feel it's my time to move on, and after nearly 6 years, it's the most difficult decision I had to make. So it's so long and good luck! Maybe I will try and start up a category in one of my other blogs on Solaris G11N. If my sun blog is still up, my contact address is whykay[at]gmail[dot]com . ( Apr 20 2005, 03:45:24 PM IST ) Permalink Comments [1]

20050303 Thursday March 03, 2005

A need for an editor to remap your keyboard? Is there a need for an editor to redefine the mapping of your keyboard? It's just a curiousity. From answers that I can get back via the emailing conventional way, I gathered there are mainly 2 groups: * Just use the "keyboard layout switching applet in Gnome":http://projects.gnome.hu/gkb/ , and most users are happy with that. * For more fine tweaking, users will just use xkb to remap some keys, and these are normally the really uber-geek folks (as I found out that xkb is somewhat complicated to get to work if creating a new layout, whilst getting lost in its directory structure ;) ). Some folks just stick to xmodmap to mainly change the Caps Lock and Control key. :) There are many 3rd party ones, but not that many (near non-existent) OS ones out there for fine grain tweaking. Or is it just a nice to have thing at the end of the day. For me, it would help alot, as I dealt with alot of enquiries about keyboard layouts, and we "support alot of keyboard layouts":http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2521/6mi67tj40?a=view . ( Mar 03 2005, 11:28:00 AM GMT ) Permalink Comments [3]

20050222 Tuesday February 22, 2005

Nifty tool to check encoding of a text file This tool called "auto_ef":http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/global/technology/standards/reference/faqs/determining-file-encoding.html is available for users to detect the encoding of a file. This is new in "Solaris 10":http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ . Further information can be found in the "man page":http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5165/6mbb0m9br?a=view . ( Feb 22 2005, 12:17:15 AM GMT ) Permalink Comments [0]

20050203 Thursday February 03, 2005

What's new in S10 wrt G11N EMEA locales? Following are some more new EMEA G11N-related features for S10: Also from "docs.sun.com":http://docs.sun.com. .. "Solaris 10 : What's New":http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0547 and "G11N-related":http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0547/6mgbdbsmi?a=view new features on docs.sun.com ( Feb 03 2005, 10:56:02 AM GMT ) Permalink Comments [0]

20050131 Monday January 31, 2005

[Basic] Language Vs Locale There has always been confusion between language and locale. Language : It's a system of gestures, sounds, symbols, or words used for communication i.e. French, English, Chinese etc... Locale : Definition of language and country settings for a system. This would include time, date, currency, special characters, numbers. It general has the following formation : language_country[.codeset][@modifier] Examples * en_IE (English_Ireland) :: Also known as Irish locale. Tuesday February 1 10:56:24 GMT 2005 * de_CH (German_Switzerland) :: Also known as German-Swiss locale. Dienstag, 1. Februar 2005, 10:56:24 Uhr GMT * en_US (English_America) :: Also known as Amercian locale. Tue Feb 1 16:25:26 GMT 2005 ( Jan 31 2005, 05:07:07 PM GMT ) Permalink Comments [0]

20050129 Saturday January 29, 2005

Changing layout of a keyboard Link I found while I was browsing : * (From Sunsolve)"How to change the layout of the keyboard":http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-70986-1 * "Solaris quick reference":http://www.hta-bi.bfh.ch/Resources/Computing/SunGroup/Info/QuickRef/Keyboard/ (explains the types of keyboards, keysyms, how to configure a keyboard, using Swiss-German as an example, with xmodmap. ( Jan 29 2005, 06:42:43 PM GMT ) Permalink Comments [0]

20050126 Wednesday January 26, 2005

Confusion over acrynoms "L10N, I18N and G11N":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G11n still "confuses":http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/articles/computing/post20050126111645.html folks, well I am not surpised, given that I only found out about A11Y a few months ago! ;) So many acrynoms! ( Jan 26 2005, 02:13:56 PM GMT ) Permalink Comments [1]

20050125 Tuesday January 25, 2005

Add/Remove locales after Solaris installation This would be more "Solaris 9 Update Release":http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5770/6ml72d6kg?a=view and "Solaris 10":http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/global/products_platforms/solaris/reference/docs/solaris_10_express_i18n_features.html specific. Adding locales after a Solaris install means the admin would need to have knowledge of "what locales" and "what packages" associated to install in order for an additional locale to work. G11N developed this utility to make life a little bit easier. :) With Locale Administrator, this will help eliminate this, all you need to do is supply the command line tool (localeadm) with : * Location of image media * Locale (en_IE.ISO8859-1) or region (weu) Follow the instructions and you will end up with a system updated with the new locale/region. See "localeadm":http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5166/6mbb1kq69?a=view (1M) for more information. (I'll probably update more on this little utility in the near future.) **Other References** * (From Solaris G11N) "Adding locales in Solaris 9":http://developers.sun.com/dev/gadc/techtips/sol9_locale_pkgs/index.html. * (From Solaris G11N) "Solaris Locales FAQ":http://developers.sun.com/dev/gadc/faq/locale.html * You can even "ask a G11N expert while you are at Solaris G11N site":http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/global/products_platforms/solaris/index.html ! :) ( Jan 25 2005, 03:52:40 PM GMT ) Permalink Comments [0]

20050124 Monday January 24, 2005

New keyboard software support in Solaris 10 Following are the keyboard layouts that are new in Solaris 10, and can be found in "Solaris 10 Release Notes":http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0552/6mgbi4fgs?a=view (information on how to set the layout) : * Estonian Keyboard Type 6 * French Canadian Keyboard Type 6 * Polish Programmers Keyboard Type 5 You can find new language support enhancement in "What's new in Solaris 10":http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0547/6mgbdbsmr?a=view as well. ( Jan 24 2005, 06:04:32 PM GMT ) Permalink Comments [1]

Some useful G11N links Here are some useful links in relation to G11N for Solaris. * "Sun Globalization":http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/global/ -- G11N information for developers. Contains information like fonts, locales, and also technical papers and whitepapers. * "International Language Environment Guide":http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2521 -- For Solaris 10. * "Euro Support in Sun's Products":http://www.sun.com/euro/ ( Jan 24 2005, 04:32:56 PM GMT ) Permalink Comments [0]

Hello I suppose it would be nice to say "hi". I've noticed a lack of l10n/i18n (g11n) blogs in Sun (plenty of docs though). So I decided to start one (should have started ages ago! ;). Well here it is, and I hope I would be able to share some tidbits on locales, keyboards (and any other g11n-related stuff) for Solaris and JDS. I know more about Solaris than JDS btw. :) So "Hello world!", and I will try to post as often as I can. ( Jan 24 2005, 03:48:48 PM GMT ) Permalink Comments [2]