G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 16:40 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > >> G. Roderick Singleton wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 05:51 -0700, Paulkey Fu wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Dear Sir, >>>> >>>> I am upgrading my OpenOffice from NeoOffice to OpenOffice >>>> 2.0.2. But the major concern is X11 on Mac does not >>>> support Chinese. So there is no way to input Chinese >>>> words. I was using NeoOffice (or WinWord) to type Chinese >>>> for my papers. Is there any plan to support Chinese in the >>>> future? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I do not see why it wouldn't unless you have not installed appropriate >>> fonts and Input Module such as SCIM. Use File > Wizards > Install fonts >>> from the web to get fonts or use your system to do so. If you already >>> have fonts, please see http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ and get a copy >>> of How to Install OpenOffice.org 2.0.x (X11) in the language of the >>> three offered and see if the section on fonts helps. >>> >>> >> G.Roderick: >> >> It is not a failure on the part of OpenOffice.org to support Chinese >> languages (be it Big-5 or Simple), but a failure of the X11 interface >> from Apple for Mac OS X. X11, out-of-the-box, will not support >> multi-byte languages. I passed this to the Mac OS X porting mail list >> as there is a possible solution to this situation and to get the >> Japanese Mac OS X team involved. >> >> James M. >> Mac OS X Test Lead, American English >> >> >> > > HOLY COW! I believe it but do not understand why a Apple would > emasculate X11. Glad to know this. > G. Roderick:
I don't know why either. They support multi-byte languages natively with the Operating System. I do know that the Japanese team had to add multi-byte support through a third party product for X11. James M. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
