On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 11:20:36AM +0530, Kedar Patankar wrote:
> One major strength of M$ is that they support unicode fully, and
> the API reflects it. For every normal library function, they also have a
> "w" version (printf, wprintf) that accepts the arguments in unicode 2 byte
> encoding.
man -k Xmb
man -k Xwc
> Indian and arabian languages are a royal pain to support because
> of the complex ways in which our text is written (compared to roman, and
> even chinese/japnese).
CJK (Chinese, Jap, Korean) are much more complex, from what I've read.
Mainly because they involve pictures as well as phoenetics. It's just
that a lot of effort has been spent on those languages.
-Arun
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