Chinese on the NeXT?

Thread View: comp.sys.next.misc

2 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

2 total messages Started by Irving_Wolfe Thu, 09 Apr 1992 06:16

#1089

Author: Irving_Wolfe
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 06:16

11 lines
837 bytes

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?

Thanks!
 - Irving
-- 
 Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com      Happy Man Corp. 206/463-9399 x101
 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd., Vashon Island, WA  98070-7399  fax x108
 We publish SOLID VALUE for the intelligent investor.  NextMail OK
Info free; sample $20: Send POSTAL addr: Solid-Value@Happy-Man.com

Re: Chinese on the NeXT?

#1195

Author: Jiro Nakamura
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 06:41

25 lines
1450 bytes

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.....

	- Jiro ==  tsugi + rou == "next"  + "man" == NeXTman!   ;-)
-- 
Jiro Nakamura				jiro@shaman.com (NeXTmail)
NeXTwatch / Technical Editor		76711,542 (CIS)
The Shaman Group			+1 607 277-1440 (Voice/Fax)

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads