SuperLinux Encyclopedia - International Topics

This page is rather misnamed. It generally covers anything non-English.

Another sources of info are the many local Linux User Groups.

General Subject:

• Internationalization (i18n) (canonical link site)
• Linux Documentation in Translations (at Henry White's Basic Linux Training)
• HOWTO translations (at least IT,KO,PL,TR; at TSX-11)
• Non-English Linux sites (links at SSC/Linux Journal's "Linux Resources")
• Non-English Keyboard topics (also see each language below):
  • Ask Slashdot: On the Euro and Keyboard Mappings
  • Keys page of SuperLinux Encyclopedia

Character sets:

• A tutorial on character code issues  "tries to clarify the concepts of character repertoire, character code, and character encoding especially in the Internet context"; and why "character set" is a confusing term.
• On the use of some MS Windows characters in HTML  Good treatise on non-ISO-8859-1 (ISO Latin-1) character sets (ie, Windows-1250, Windows-1252, WinLatin-1) in supposed HTML pages.
• Demoroniser  Fixes HTML pages that use non-standard (M$, that is) character sets (which cause apostrophes, etc to show up as "?" in non-M$ browsers).
• ISO 8859-1 character set overview  Latin-1
• unicode.txt - info on the Unicode character/font mapping used in Linux.
• Ask Slashdot: Are there UNICODE String Literals in GCC?
• EURO Pack  "makes linux support ISO-8859-15 latin9 also nicknamed latin0"  mirror

Specific Languages:

• Chinese:
  • Chinese HOWTO How to configure Linux for use with the Chinese characterset.
  • CLE - Chinese Linux Extention
• Danish:
  • Book on Linux
  • Danish HOWTO How to configure Linux for use with the Danish characterset.
• Dutch:
  • A Dutch Linux support site.
  • www.nl.linux.org
• English, but not US, UK, or AU:
  • Introduction to Linux  From India.
• Finnish:
  • Finnish HOWTO How to configure Linux for use with the Finnish characterset.
  • SOT-Linux  Red Hat variant in Finnish.
  • Finnish spell checker for Emacs  An ispell replacement.
• French:
  • French HOWTO How to configure Linux for use with the French characterset.
  • FREEendUSER e-mail newsletter
  • French Linux News
  • Le Guide du ROOTard pour Linux
  • LMB - Le Micro Bulletin Actu (French techno news site)
  • Linux Magazine
  • OverNews  E-mag.
• German:
  • German HOWTO Information on using Linux with German-specific features.
  • Winfried Trümpers Linux-Seite
  • The Linux BBS  German language. Daily news.
  • Linux on the PowerPC
  • Linux-Magazin  In German.
  • Man Pages in German  Many.
  • A German Linux FAQ 
• Greek:
  • Hellug.gr  A LUG.
  • Magaz (in Greek; from Greece)
• Hebrew:
  • Hebrew HOWTO How to configure Linux for use with the Hebrew characterset.
• Indonesian:
  • Indonesian Linux Documentation Project
• Italian:
  • Italian HOWTO How to configure Linux for use with the Italian characterset.
  • Prosa Srl  Mostly in Italian as of Dec'98. Open Software company.
  • PROSA Debian  For Italian Linuxers.
  • in Reggio OnLine A Linux Column.
• Japanese:
  • Japanese man pages (about 500 of them)
  • TaKoDamon - Linux - Japanese Linux
  • JWP - Japanese Word Processor
  • XEmacs  has extensive Japanese support.
  • Ask Slashdot: Linux in Japanese?
  • Interbase for Linux  A good, embedable RDBMS. There's a Japanese version.
  • LWN in Japanese  or here?
• Korean:
  • easylinux-kr  From Korea. Web page in Korean and English.
• Polish:
  • Polish HOWTO Information on using Linux with Polish-specific features.
  • Linux and Unix (emag)
  • Polish Man Translation Project
• Portuguese:
  • Linux in Brazil
  • Linux Administração de Sistemas
• Russian:
  • Linux in Ukraine
  • Cyrillic HOWTO How to configure Linux for use with the Cyrillic characterset.
• Slovenian:
  • Slovenian HOWTO Information on using Linux with Slovenian-specific features.
  • Slovenian LDP (and other info)
  • Slovenian Keyboard  Not sure what this is. There's files for DL.
• Spanish:
  • Spanish HOWTO Information on using Linux with Spanish-specific features.
  • Linux Preview   From Venezuela. (Is this Portuguese?)
• Thai:
  • Thai HOWTO How to configure Linux for use with the Thai character set.
• Vietnamese:
  • Vietnamese Linux  Keyboard maps and fonts.

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