Fedora and the "normal" user

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sun Mar 25 20:01:56 UTC 2007


On Sunday 25 March 2007, Peter Lauri wrote:
> > Yes.  But first I make sure the person in question doesn't use apps that
> > Fedora or Linux in general won't do a certain good job on
>
> [Peter Lauri - DWS Asia]
>
> Hi. Thanks for a great reply. I feel more comfortable now. However, as my
> business is located in Thailand, support of Thai characters etc raises my
> question. In work they will not use Thai, but I let them use their working
> computers for private use as well, and then they will use Thai.
>
> One issue is that I know that Firefox doesn't handle Thai text so well :)
> The problem is that thai "sentences" don't contain any whitespaces, so a
> sentence is built like a LONG LONG word that will not break correctly in FF
> for most web sites. Most Thai users use IE for web browsing. However, there
> must be some plugin or something that is supporting this for FF.
>
> I bet I need to be accessible for supporting them during the startup. The
> problem is that I woun't be able to do that for a while as I am doing some
> temporary consultancy work in Finland.
>
Try to contact either the Mozilla developers or the KDE-konqueror developers - 
you may get some really useful hints.

Amme




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