Re: multi-lingual support under Unix


Subject: Re: multi-lingual support under Unix
From: Mike Nordell (tamlin@algonet.se)
Date: Sat Dec 30 2000 - 10:05:15 CST


Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> From: "Mike Nordell" <tamlin@algonet.se>
> > As for implementation, I think it should only be allowed at the
paragraph
> > level.
>
> I strongly disagree. It should be allowed everywhere. A couple of
> reasons of the top of my head:

You are correct. I was overly simplifying the problem.

> But we also need a *document* language (taken from the current locale
(when
> creating a new document)).

Agreed.

I stand corrected. I just wanted to find a simple implementation i a short
time (not wanting every songle character to take another 100 bytes of
memory).

/Mike



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