--- 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
> -- 
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