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Re: Chinese on the NeXT?

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From: Jiro Nakamura
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 06:41
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In article <1992Apr9.061650.24829@Happy-Man.com> irving@Happy-Man.com  
(Irving_Wolfe) writes:
> Can anyone give me information about the ability or lack thereof,
> of NeXTs to handle Chinese characters, preferably in documents with
> mixed Chinese and English text?

No luck right onw!  I expect Canon is working on Hangul, but the Chinese  
market for NeXT is so small as to be worthless (unless they sell royal in  
Hong Kong and Singapore (hi Bill!)).   

Chinese is non-trivial, even more Kanji than Japanese and Korean and a  
lack of a real standard input system. But then again, NeXT uses Unicode,  
so it isn't out of the question. THe question is, does Adobe or anyone  
else sell Chinese kanji PS faces?

If it is short and undiscerning people are reading it, you might try to  
use 2.1-J (Japanese). A lot of Kanji's are the same or slightly  
different.....


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