Re: Macintosh OS8.6, OS9

2001-02-06 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
-- Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is rumored to have mumbled on Dienstag, 6. Februar 2001 9:18 Uhr -0800 regarding Re: Macintosh OS8.6, OS9: > I just got two brand new Macs with 9.0.4 installed. How do I get the > WorldText application? Michael, you need to get the FULL ve

Re: Macintosh OS8.6, OS9

2001-02-06 Thread Bertrand Laidain
It comes with the full CD of system 9.1 not 9.04 (and that means not the update online which does not have the langage kit update, also in the CD) Bertrand >I just got two brand new Macs with 9.0.4 installed. How do I get the >WorldText application? -- Bertrand Laidain 1, rue Stendhal 75020

Re: Macintosh OS8.6, OS9

2001-02-06 Thread Michael Everson
Sebastian, I just got two brand new Macs with 9.0.4 installed. How do I get the WorldText application? -- Michael Everson ** Everson Gunn Teoranta ** http://www.egt.ie 15 Port Chaeimhghein Íochtarach; Baile Átha Cliath 2; Éire/Ireland Mob +353 86 807 9169 ** Fax +353 1 478 2597 ** Vox +353 1

Re: Macintosh OS8.6, OS9

2001-02-06 Thread Jaap Pranger
> >Mac OS 9.1 comes with a small word processor called WorldText that >supports ATSUI... it's a first step. There's also Cyclone, a character set conversion utility based on TEC, and SUE, "Simple Unicode Editor", both by Tomasz Kukielka. US: Europe:

Re: Macintosh OS8.6, OS9

2001-02-06 Thread Peter_Constable
Mac OS8.6 and later do support Unicode. The question is whether apps that run on that OS also support Unicode -- and the particular APIs that the OS provides for supporting Unicode. One could argue that Win 3.1 supported Unicode, but only a very limited subset on any given installation. E.g., wh

Re: Macintosh OS8.6, OS9

2001-02-05 Thread Bertrand Laidain
The MacOs did support Unicode in 8.6 and 9.x, see Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging Reference http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macos8/TextIntlSvcs/ATSUI/ATSUI_ref/index.html Handling Unicode Text Editing With Multilingual Text Engine http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/tex

Re: Macintosh OS8.6, OS9

2001-02-05 Thread Patrick T. Rourke
Thanks to everyone who responded, especially Mr. Hagedorn; as it is precisely the Extended Greek, Basic Greek, and Combining diacriticals blocks that interest me, this was very important information. Patrick Rourke > Netscape, Internet Explorer and Icab (another browser for the MacOs) > use UTF8

Re: Macintosh OS8.6, OS9

2001-02-05 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
-- "P. T. Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is rumored to have mumbled on Montag, 5. Februar 2001 8:47 Uhr -0800 regarding Macintosh OS8.6, OS9: > A communication with someone offlist (though I think he is on the list) > suggested that Unicode is not supported at all in Macinto

Macintosh OS8.6, OS9

2001-02-05 Thread P. T. Rourke
A communication with someone offlist (though I think he is on the list) suggested that Unicode is not supported at all in Macintosh OS8.6 or OS9, not even to the degree that it is supported in Windows 9x, except by means of Windows emulation (if I'm characterizing the message correctly; it is on a