Hi Stanislav,
> In the end of this month Max is going to release stand-alone LNG
> compiler, so, everybody will be able to compile his language
> himself, to see how it works and to debug it.
Am I right that this LNG thing is only for the user interface, not
real multilingual support? What I really want is for TB to handle
DBCS (double-byte character set, used for Chinese, Japanese,
Korean) correctly.
Yes, with a DBCS Windows, or Windows 2000 with the right default
language locale setup, TB does display Chinese and allow me to
write Chinese, mostly. But by DBCS support, I mean the following
things, in order of importance:
1. to wrap correctly. There is no space in regular writing for
these languages, and TB doesn't know how to wrap when it doesn't
see one.
2. to be able to read and write these languages in Windows 2000
without having to set one of them as the default locale, as long
as the support for these languages are installed. For now, I have
to set Chinese as my default locale to read/write Chinese, but
then I can't read/write Japanese unless I change my default system
locale to Japanese.
3. to delete a DBCS character in one keystroke, not two.
My trial period is ending soon, so could you (or maybe Stefan)
please tell me whether DBCS support is in your plan in the near
future? Since I'm currently studying in the U.S., I don't have
much Chinese email to read/write, much less Japanese. So I can
live with it. But I'm going back to my home country (Taiwan) in a
year, top, and I'll need to do a lot of Chinese email.
If The Bat! has no plan to support DBCS in the near future, I'll
have to turn to Becky (or Outlook Express, which is the one I'm
ditching). In fact, I've been testing out Becky extensively
recently, wishing vainly to convince myself that it's as good as
The Bat. To be fair, Becky does have some features that TB lacks,
but as a whole, TB is a notch better. However, this lack of DBCS
support is irritating, and will kill me after I return to Taiwan.
So, please, please make it your top priority (at least one of).
I'll be more than happy to pay my registration fee. In fact, if
DBCS is fully supported, I'll be happy to introduce it to my
country fellows.
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Best regards,
Ming-Li
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