Subject: RE: to support CJK(Chinese Japanese Korea)
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2000 - 12:53:39 CST
At 02:09 AM 2/8/00 +0800, Andrew Goh wrote:
> > With Windows98 or newer (or with IE installed) there is a lot of font
>support. The input method is specific to each Win98/NT flavor
>(Europe,Middle-east,Asia...), but Win2000 will have them all.
>
>hmm, perhaps the Linux user can eventually use the several TrueType
>typefaces provided by Microsoft.
Has nothing to do with the type of the fonts - it's an OS level
service.
> > How is input support in Linux?
> >
>Almost non-existent today. (or am i outdated? *grin*)
>
>i think CJK character input is almost always associated with
>a word processor of some kind, given the elaborate glyphs in the
>CJK character sets.
Well, on MacOS and Windows, input is handled at the OS level so as
to abstract all that complexity out of the application - especially in the
handling of the differences between different languages.
Leonard
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