Hi, From: Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FYI: lamerpad Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 21:13:16 -0500
> > Of course, adoptation of Unicode alone cannot make your software > > support CJK languages (more efforts are needed). I hope Lamerpad > > will help testing softwares and will lead more softwares supporting > > CJK languages. > > What more is needed? > > Combining (Korean) and double-width characters (in the case of console apps) > are two things that need special attention, but they're both just parts of > supporting Unicode. > > Other than that, and input method support (which is unreasonably difficult > at the moment--based on conversations on this list--except in Windows where > it's merely annoying), what more is needed in the general case? If you are talking about full support of Unicode including technical reports and so on, you are right. However, there are many softwares which insist supporting Unicode which cannot handle bidi, combining, doublewidth, more than two or three bytes UTF-8 character, multiple fonts for multiple scripts, and so on. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
