It comes in both server and embedded versions. The core of Coventive's offering, however, would appear to be its internationalization effort. XLinux is supported with English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, simplified and traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese. GCS is actually a mathematical encryption algorithm that the computer uses to transition between natural language characters and letters and computer language bits. Essentially, the company has come up with a way of representing eastern glyphs that better matches their structure.
Many Asian characters are composites, made up of one or more simpler characters.
Some more information may be found on the Coventive web site , but that site evidently was not designed with Linux-based browsers in mind. There is no information on the origins of the XLinux distribution. In coming to the U.S., Coventive is jumping into a crowded marketplace - and one which may not be greatly concerned about nice display of Asian character sets. But the company seems to be doing well in its home market, and may yet have a surprise for the western hemisphere as well. LinuxToday prints Red Hat response .