Chapter 11. POLYGLOT PENGUINS
Linux Speaks Your Language
These days, almost all operating systems are multilingual, or at least capable of becoming so. This is true of Linux as well. Just open your web browser and, without performing any special installations, you can read pages in any European language, including those with Cyrillic alphabets, such as Russian. You can even view pages in Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Arabic, and Hebrew, to name but a few.
But the multilingual capabilities of Linux are much greater than this, and the way that it handles multilingual matters makes it quite easy to take advantage of these capabilities. As you will soon see, ...
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