From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 12:21:02 EDT
--- Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com> wrote:
> At 4:50 PM +0100 4/26/02, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> > > I would disagree. I would suggest that we show
> the
> >> Japanese
> >> name ALL THE TIME, if it exists. Why does it
> matter
> >> what the locale
> >> is, since Abi is a "multi-lingual WP"???
> >
> >Umm - nobody will be able to read it for a start!
>
> If they are running a Unicode enabled OS they will.
They'll be able to see it - not read it. They won't
be able to read it out over the telephone or type it
into a bug report.
> I don't
> run my Mac or Windows machines in Japanese, but I
> have the "language
> kits" installed and happily view font names (and
> other things) in
> Japanese as i would expect.
>
>
> >I like playing with Japanese myself but I can't
> read Kanji.
> >
>
> Same here! But why should I have to switch to
> that locale
> to see the data in the native font/script.
Why would you want to? We're talking about the name
of the font - a sample of the font I would surely
want to see in the native script.
Andrew Dunbar.
> Leonard
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