Richard Gabriel wrote:
Hello Hans,
to be honest: I don't speak Chinese and don't know much about it.
A few days ago, I was told that we'll let translate some of our
documents (XML) into Chinese and Japanese and I 'll have to typeset them.
So I started playing with Chinese in ConTeXt. I've reported the
results which other users (e.g. Tobias) have also noticed.
In fact, all the sample Simplified Chinese documents I've tested it on
were easily convertible to CP936 (GBK) and could be typeset. This
doesn't mean that you shall not extend the Unicode support, I only
think I will not hardly require it... :-)
But yet another question: What about Japanese? I've made only small
research so far, but unlike Chinese, there's almost no information
about Japanese in TeX. How much of work would be to adjust the current
"chinese" ConTeXt module for Japanese? What would you need for it?
[Of course, meanwhile I'll investigate some other ways of typesetting
Japanese...]
it's all a matter of fonts and specs; handling those languages is not
that complex
the main complication is in the encodings (related to the input) and
utf8 makes sense as common encoding; context (newtexexec) has provisions
for runtime recoding
what do the chinese users think of it ...
Hans
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