linux (rh 7.3), ellhnika, evolution, kai giati ta windows allazoun layout toso kalytera? :-)

[Stefanos Zachariadis]

Kat'arxhn eyxaristw poly gia thn apadhsh.
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 08:05, N Kanellopoulos wrote:
> H lush einai aplh kai legetai "Environment
> Variables".
>   LANG=en_UK
>   LC_CTYPE=el_GR
> 
> Afou den eisai newbie, h synexeia afinetai ws
> askhsh (hint: /etc/sys/).

Allaksa to /etc/sysconfig/i18n (dioti to redhat den exei /etc/sys, kai
ypothetw ola ta LSB compliant distros) stis times pou mou protines kai
epitelous mporw na grafw ellhnika se aggliko perivallon.

Par'ola ayta, to evolution, eksakolouthei na mou deixnei... tetragonakia
anti gia ellhnika, kai to openoffice arnhtai na grapsei ellhnika. To
Microsoft Word omws (katw apo crossover office) grafei ellhnika
apsoga... Den mporw na katalavw pio einai to provlhma me to evolution
kai to openoffice... Mhpws mporei kapoios na me vohthisei?

> To LaTeX kanei parse ellhnika mono me to Babel (greek)
> kai input encoding iso8859-7. Egw exw grapsei kai
> arxaia me to LaTeX.

Den hksera gia to package babel, tha to dokimasw eyxaristw.
 
> Kai mia symboulh: Otan zhtas bohtheia edw mesa,
> na mhn diafhmizeis ta Windows...

Diafhmizw ta windows? "Diafhmizw" ta windows otan lew oti kanoun kati
poly kalytera apo to linux h ta free unices ? H mhpws lew apla thn
alhtheia? Pistepse me, ki egw "opados" tou linux eimai edw kai polla
xronia. Alla yparxoun polloi tomeis pou ta windows, exoun proterhmata
(multiple language support, directX (oxi mono 3d!), unified audio system
support (gia linux yparxoun, OSS, ALSA, panw apo afta to ESD, ARTS klp)
klp). Nai sigoura yparxoun enalaktika sto linux, alla as eimaste
realistes, to linux den tha "swsei ton kosmo", einai ena aristo
leitourghko pou s'ayto to forum mas aresei na xrhshmopoioume. To na
katalavainoume ta proterhmata tou adagwnismou, einai to prwto vhma wste
na ginoume kalyteroi...

Den thelw n'arxisw flamewar, apla den "diafhmizw" ta windows, se kamoia
periptwsh, otan lew pws "tolmoun" kai kanoun kati kalytera apo to
linux...

Eyxaristw,
Stefanos

-- 
Stefanos Zachariadis
Dept. of Computer Science, University College London
Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom 
WWW: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/s.zachariadis
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