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Article #1757Re: Apple and Japanese computing
From: Colin Smith
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 14:17
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 14:17
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Jim Williams (williams@tiac.net) wrote: : 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 I think X systems in general are language independant, as you can map any key combination on to any character, of any of the fonts. Nothing strange or different about Linux. : >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? The Kanji fonts are postscript I think. If they are bitmap fonts then they can be converted to postscript fairly easily. : > : 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... There are Japanese newsgroups somewhere, tells you in the japanese HOWTO. : 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/ -- ______________________________________________________________ |Linux the FREE OS that has a Performance/Price ratio that is | |INFINITELY higher than anything sold by Micro$oft! | | | | http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/linux.html | |______________________________________________________________| NOTE:-This is my Opinion and not necessarily the opinion of ANYONE else, especially not my employer! Colin Smith. colins@mojo.europe.dg.com
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