X multilingual?

[Stjopa Itenetowy]

Hi, want ot choose Slackware as my regular os because like very much
the idea of elegance through simplicity and minimalism.
However when reading the comparative description:
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slackware
there's something which worries a little... i.e. the feature
"Multilingual" is specified as unsupported... what does it mean
exactly?
Is it about xorg-server environment too and e.g. it will not allow to
have Cyrillic keyboard input in such applications like LibreOffice
etc.?

[jo...@wexfordpress.com]

I don't work languages other than English. I do know that there are
tex user groups around the world including China. I have read
discussions about people who were using right to left languages like
Arabic and Hebrew and vertical plus right to left fonts like Kangi.

Nothing in Tex is "supported" in the sense that you can for a fee call
up a hotline for support. But if you choose to use a specific font
for a specific language there are plenty of people here who can help,
and others in specific mailing lists like luatex and Context.

Keyboards are another issue, dealt with at installation time for
whatever flavor of Linux etc. you use. MSWin may present more of a
challenge but it too is used around the world.

TeX is free. I would download it, and then ask for hints here on using
it with whatever language you needed. I use the pdftex variant and the
Context MKIV variant on a regular basis.
For exotic fonts you might employ luatex, Context MKIV or lualatex.

John Culleton

[Henrik Carlqvist]

On Thu, 16 May 2013 05:54:51 -0700, Stjopa Itenetowy wrote:
> http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slackware there's
> something which worries a little... i.e. the feature "Multilingual" is
> specified as unsupported... what does it mean exactly?

I really have no idea what distrowatch means by that.

> Is it about xorg-server environment too and e.g. it will not allow to
> have Cyrillic keyboard input in such applications like LibreOffice etc.?

The Slackware xorg server supports different keyboards. I use a swedish
keyboard myself. Also on the text console there is support for different
keyboards. It is also possible to configure KDE for different languages.

regards Henrik
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