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- From: k.vikor@alf.uib.no (Knut S. Vikor)
- Subject: Re: Installing Multiple Language Scripts
- Message-ID: <k.vikor-280792201826@mac10.sms.uib.no>
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- Organization: University of Bergen
- References: <jenkinsj-270792084816@tseng.taligent.com> <1992Jul28.120953.7617@tdb.uu.se>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 18:34:50 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In article <1992Jul28.120953.7617@tdb.uu.se>, matsb@tdb.uu.se (Mats
- Bredell) wrote:
- >
- > jenkinsj@blowfish.taligent.com (John H. Jenkins) writes:
- >
- > .... Right now, I can move back and
- > : forth between English, Hebrew, and Chinese just by hitting command-space.
- > : It's rather nice.
- >
- > How did you install the foreign scripts (why doesn't it work on my machine???)
- >
- > I thought that dropping the script, the keyboard layout and the fonts into the
- > system file was enough. Oh yes, that little INIT that complains during startup
- > too ...
- >
- > /Mats
- > --
- > Mats Bredell Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
- > Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
- > Department of medical systems Ph: +46 18 187817
- > Sweden Fax: +46 18 187825
- Installing Arabic, I had to drop the various bits in twice before
- they "caught". You must also have all elements - I do not know about
- Chinese or Hebrew, but Arabic consists of two control panels, two
- extensions and a system addition (keyboard layout) + the fonts (at least
- al-Qahira, the Arabic System font). In order to see Arabic in the Finder,
- the Finder font must then be set to al-Qahira (in the View control panel).
- In such a "hybrid" system, menus will normally not appear in Arabic, only
- Latin script (the "default" script).
-
- John H. Jenkins also wrote
- > Any program that uses the Script Manager correctly will handle bi-di text
- > correctly. I don't know much about who does and who doesn't use the Script
- > Manager, beyond the fact that Nisus does and Word doesn't. Word is a Bad
- > Program for people using non-Roman scripts (*sigh*). The English version
- > of Nisus works perfectly with both Hebrew and Chinese so far as I can tell
- Standard Nisus does not work properly with Arabic, only the far more
- expensive Nisus international does. Word does not, nor MacWrite, WriteNow
- or any other standard word processor I know of. The only script-manager
- comaptible programs for wp are the fairly obsolete AllScript (also sold
- under the names of RavK'tav and Nousous), WinText and Nisus int.(and for
- dtp, al-Nashir al-Maktabi). For simple text editing, the shareware
- miniWriter is script-manager compatible and works fine.
- Databases are better, FileForce and 4th Dimension standard work fine
- with Arabic, as does HyperCard. Filemaker II used to be OK for displaying
- (not sorting) Arabic, but Filemaker Pro has lost that; another step
- backwards.
-