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Article #1375Re: Apple and Japanese computing
From: Jim Williams
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 17:04
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 17:04
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leto2@gol1.gol.com (Peter Payne) wrote: >> Linux, I find superior to all others as far as internationalization. Full >> Multilingual support versions of Mosaic exist (you can read Korean, Chinese, >> Japanaese, Russian, etc.) from it. > >How is that accomplished? Someone just made the Japanese add-on for >free, because they wanted to be nice? How is text handled? I assume with >a bitmapped font system that it at least as good as Apple? Are the fonts >Truetype? > I don't know much (if anything) about the Japanese version, but I do know something about how things get added to Linux. Yes, someone just made the Japanese add-on for free because they wanted to be nice. I assume they got something out of Linux and wanted to give something back -- they also probably needed Japanese... What I want to know is, why are the Tokyo Linux User Group meetings conducted in English? -- Jim Williams. Find a Linux/GNU User Group near you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: Apple and Japanese computing Date: 21 Aug 1995 17:04:52 GMT Organization: Elision Message-ID: <41aebk$lus@sundog.tiac.net> References: <40uvd9$dtl@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <40voat$dfj@hideous.sanjose.vlsi.com> <412k48$ift@gol1.gol.com> <DDLDuI.9sw@news.cis.umn.edu> <419r9c$qci@gol1.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: elision.tiac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit)