[fedora-ja-list] [Bug 136290] Add Japanese SJIS locale

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Summary: Add Japanese SJIS locale


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136290


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------- Additional Comments From thompson_r ＠ earthnavi.com  2005-03-29 20:55 EST -------
I respectfully but strongly disagree with the decision not to support Shift-JIS.

I am the CTO for a Japanese media company, and we use Redhat Linux for all of 
our web, file and print servers.  Our desktops are, as is common, Macintosh and 
Windows.  All of which, utilize the Shift-JIS locale or Microsoft's variation 
thereof.

1. In the case of our file servers, the problem of name conversion is 
insurmountable.  Files written by Windows machines into the shared folders have 
Shift-JIS-encoded filenames, and those written by Redhat use EUC; for files 
which must be exchange between both systems, we are forced to use English 
filenames.  This is confusing for a large number of our staff, and we 
continually have problem with filename encoding.

2. From Windows client, it is impossible to utilize a SSH session to our Redhat 
server, unless we force to use the English locale.  Therefore, engineers must 
read English command help and man pages, unless they travel to the server room 
and log in from the console. 

3. All of our web and document content is provided in Shift-JIS, so we are 
unable to perform maintenance on or even view the contents of those documents 
from the Redhat console, unless we use a character set converter to make a copy 
in EUC-JP.  But, iconv is not a substitute for being able to edit the same 
document on both type of system.

4. Databases are all in Shift-JIS encoding, so again maintenance of our data 
resources cannot be performed from the Redhat console.  It is required that we 
use remote tools for database maintenance.

5. Our XML data feed system utilizes UTF-8, but all other Japanese systems are 
Shift-JIS, with the exception of the EUC-JP-only Redhat servers.  

In summary, we have no need for EUC support, and every day require Shift-JIS.

We had at one point considered using OpenOffice and Redhat on our desktops, but 
it is impossible for us to maintain external compatibility for outside 
companies were we to take this step.  Instead, we stay with Windows.

Does anyone know of a third-party add-on which can provide this support?


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