Re: Another shell/GUI cooperation script

2003-03-27 Thread Chris Nandor
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams) wrote: Chris, would it be fun/possible to convert all that applescript to perl? Yep. Note that currently you cannot tell an object in Mac::Glue, but no big deal; that is just syntactic sugar. You'll see that apart from that, it

Re: [MacPerl] Re: problem with Japanese text

2003-03-27 Thread Robin
On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 01:31 am, Chris Nandor wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin) wrote: MacPerl per se historically has not been aware of locale outside of ascii defined ones (not sure about the latest version). Is there a reason for MacJPerl when MacPerl 5.8.x is released? while the 5.8

Re: [MacPerl] Re: problem with Japanese text

2003-03-27 Thread Rich Morin
Character set difficulties are still a real problem, but so is dynamic text. Damian Conway's paper An Algorithmic Approach to English Pluralization http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Plurals.html contains some fairly complicated tools for generating dynamically- pluralized

Re: [MacPerl] Re: problem with Japanese text

2003-03-27 Thread Joel Rees
Not sure if my comments are relevant, just feeling inclined to expose my ignorance -- Character set difficulties are still a real problem, but so is dynamic text. Damian Conway's paper An Algorithmic Approach to English Pluralization

Re: [MacPerl] Re: problem with Japanese text

2003-03-27 Thread Dan Kogai
On Friday, Mar 28, 2003, at 11:37 Asia/Tokyo, Joel Rees wrote: Not sure if my comments are relevant, just feeling inclined to expose my ignorance -- And here is mine. Japanese is one of those languages that has relatively few specifically plural forms. To get the pluralizations right in