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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: Arabic support in Kermit
Date: 13 Jan 2000 15:11:47 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <85i65j$muu$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>,
I (Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>) wrote:
:... there is the matter of the font. There is still, as far as we know,
: no monospaced Unicode font suitable for terminal emulation that includes the
: glyphs needed for Arabic -- let alone Armenian, Hebrew, Georgian, or for
: that matter full VT100 graphics. (Let alone Chinese, Japanese, and Korean!)
:
I should have looked again before I spoke. Matters are improving after all.
Microsoft's Courier New supports Hebrew and Arabic after all.
For a survey of Unicode fonts, visit:
http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fonts.html
To see sample text in many languages in both proportional and fixed fonts,
visit:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html
No Arabic there yet, but only because nobody has sent us any. (If you can,
we'd be happy to add it, and any other language too.)
- Frank