Re: [cobalt-developers] CMU on the 550

[Jeff Bilicki <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> On Monday 27 January 2003 08:01 am, Anders Björklund wrote:
>> Anyone knows exactly *what* kinds of problems exist with CMU on the 550?
> whatever you do, approach the CMU with caution when using the Japanese OS.
> doing a CMU export from a Japanese Raq4 or Raq3 will do lots of funky things 
> to the Japanese encoding. Seems like the Perl modules for proper encoding 
> arent on the pre-550 Raqs.
> Importing from the Japanese version into the Raq550 needs special attention 
> (besides all the duplicated usernames - argh!!) to ensure that the mangled 
> characters resulting from the export dont interfere with the script.
> I ended up writing a series of bash scripts to work through the XML file and 
> strip out the Japanese "name" field, etc.
> took about 80 hours to import 1300 users and 375 websites in Japanese.

That is odd, I was pretty sure that all fields that could be localized in
Japanese where base64 encoded and then decoded on the import end.  

If you have a localized J cmuExport files any chance I could get a copy? Drop
me an email off list.

Jeff-