Sunday, February 10, 2002, 7:51:36 PM, Alastair wrote: AS> Part of the problem is that TB!'s numbering is too modest - 1.54 AS> is a big upgrade to 1.53.
AS> But, at the moment, AS> + 1.54 definitely doesn't include double-byte encoding or Unicode AS> support; A shame. I see that Shift-JIS character set support has been added to the beta, but this was almost a waste of time as far as I can tell, because almost no Japanese use this character set anymore. Everything, or certainly almost everything, these days, is ISO-2022-JP. Selecting Shift-JIS from the character set menu allows me to read zilch. Nada. Zero. AS> As far as I can see the IME can work with third-party AS> applications: AS> So, in principle, there's no difficulty integrating it into TB. AS> The problem is making the developers see this :( AS> I shall email them privately about this. I hope you are successful. I may send a letter myself. Microsoft is taking this ball and running with it, and the end result is that I may soon be using Outlook. I run English Windows 2000, with an English Office XP on board. When I get Japanese e-mail and I open it in Outlook, I have to do . . . nothing . . . to view it properly. It simply appears as perfectly formatted Japanese text in the viewer. So, it's not an operating system limitation, given that you have the right font packages installed. It's a developer limitation, and one I think that any serious e-mail client with pretensions to internationalism would have to have this capability. Certainly when a free client has it, a non-free client is going to have to compete, or ultimately lose. Maybe the folks at Rit simply don't have a very good idea of how much Japanese and Chinese e-mail is exchanged between English and other non-DBCS platforms. I can assure them the number is huge, and growing by leaps and bounds daily. Microsoft is obviously on to this, and may make inroads into Rit's market that may prove hard for Rit to win back after the fact. Best, Yuki mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
