Kaixo! On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:56:01AM -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> Thaana and Ethiopic are not difficult, but need somebody who > wants to work on them. Cherokee, CAS, and some others fall into > the same category. I don't know about Thaana, but ethiopic script andcherokee, etc, don't have any issue on rendering, as long as you have a font for them. The problem may be the input. > Mandrake Linux provides keyboard support for ... but not > Arabic. There are keyboard layouts for Arabic and Farsi (using arabic script too); those come in standard with XFree86 btw. > I have not found any problems with > diacritics in Latin and Cyrillic. If the diacriticized letter has a unicode value of itself, there is no problem; I suppose the problem is for characters not covered by unicode, eg a "g with tilde". > I agree about Korean and Polytonic Greek. The same goes for > Biblical Hebrew, Talmudic Aramaic, Quranic Arabic... The problem is mainly a lack of info; the current keyboard layouts should be extended to include some extra diacritics; but at which positions? Feedback from people actually using them is needed. > I have a Chinese HOWTO, but I can't find a Japanese or Korean > HOWTO. Any pointers? I can type Chinese with Cangjie, Korean > Hangul, and Japanese with romaji conversion in software where I > know how to activate them. I would be delighted if I could do it > in e-mail. If you use a mail client that uses Qt or gtk toolkit it is automatic. Netscape/mozilla also supports it. If it is a text-mode client, you can just launch it from an XIM-enabled xterm. -- Ki �a vos v�ye b�n, Pablo Saratxaga http://chanae.walon.org/pablo/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0xD9B85466 [you can write me in Walloon, Spanish, French, English, Italian or Portuguese] -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
