--- Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Leonard Rosenthol > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <http://www.lazerware.com> ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
