On Tuesday 03 June 2003 19:55, Amit Upadhyay wrote: > > All the same it makes me wonder why chinese is first supported as > > international language these days by any software. Devnagri > > doesn't figure > > May be coz they know kungfu better than us ;) [my guess is Chinese > language is not as complicated as Indic ones from rendering/input > point of view]
It is a lot more complicated. > > > anywhere most of the times. Despite the fact that mandarin script > > is quite difficult in structure than the devnagri. Some developer > > of X back then pointed out that it was due to lack of standard in > > implementation of fonts. Only partly true. The real reason is market size all of the 1.2 billion of em (well almost all) read and write the same. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
