Eric
I have recently worked with a group that internationalized their products.
The jest of the problem is that Oriental alphabets have so many characters
(>256) that they cannot be encoded in 8 bits. There is an acronym for 16 or
more bit encoding, but it escapes me right now. I believe this one is a
Microsoft standard. You may want to research MS and Apple for the term
"localization". I have seen this to be a serious problem for programmers
using languages that are bias to Western alphabets.
Gordon
P.S. I hope everyone will excuse me if this is redundant. Perhaps I should
read these 230 emails from the most recent, to the oldest?
Eric wrote:
> hi all,
> I try to write a Chinese plug in for PalmOS, so that Palm can
> display Chinese. Each Chinese character is composed by 2 super characters.
> can any good guy tell me what's the key things tp concern ?
>
> E r i c
>
> Electrical and Electronic Engineering
> The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
> URL: http://home.ust.hk/~ee_slm
