At 12:30 pm +0200 14/10/02, Herbert Elbrecht wrote:

>I entered characters outside of the usual Apple Language Kit range, 
>Private Use Area ones etc - and Okito was just not ready to handle 
>these "truely" Unicode characters, although Unicode Input Menu got 
>activated!

That is not quite so.  Okito is quite capable of handling polytonic 
Greek, which is "true Unicode" and probably other sets outside the 
scope of the TEC.  I presume that the whole of Unicode would have 
been enabled eventually.

>  There was no way to work with "TITUS Cyberbit Basic" private use 
>characters - it all ended disastrous! Looked like Okito still being 
>"under construction" this way!

Certainly I had a fair amount of trouble with Okito when I tried it 
and would never have expected it to develop as an alternative to 
Nisus, but at least Charles Jolley has the distinction of having 
produced the first Unicode-aware word-processor for OS 10 even if it 
is delta-ware and nowhere near what a serious user demands.  Let's 
hope Nisus can use his talents to good advantage and not lose too 
much of the functionality we have always had with Nisus from the 
first version.

I fear we shall need to forego quite a lot in early cocoa versions of 
Nisus, however.  So long as I see steady progress, I shall be patient 
in the early stages, since I guess it's a mammoth task.

It would be good to hear something substantial from Nisus about the plan.

JD

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