[Ubuntu-BD] Problem regarding Kopete

[Nasimul Haque]

2009/7/24 Shahriar Tariq <shahriar at linux.org.bd>:
>
> Nasim bhai if its not difficult to explain in few lines would you kindly
> enlighten us what is locale or what it does (just a line or two would do).
>

locale specifies how to handle strings in your OS. Unicode is a
multibyte character unlike ASCII. And there are too many encoder for
unicode. OS needs to know how to decode bytes to string. Locale
provides this information to OS about the decoder. It has some other
functionality, but this is the principal one.

-- 
M. Nasimul Haque, M.Sc.(SUST)
Wessex Institute of Technology
Southampton, UK