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- From: jonwd@uwtc.washington.edu (Jon Wiederspan)
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- Subject: Re: TextEdit, International Scripts and others....
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.170407.14461@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:04:07 GMT
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- In article <jenkinsj-101192100039@tseng.taligent.com> John H. Jenkins,
- jenkinsj@blowfish.taligent.com writes:
- >> > Nisus gives every appearance of rigidly using the Script Manager. I
- >> > have never had any problems in handling any of the nasty non-Roman
- >> > scripts with it: Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and so on.
- >
- >> Standard Nisus (3.05) does *not* handle Arabic. Like many word
- >> processors (MS Word), it will display the Arabic, but does not allow
- >> editing the text once typed. E.g. a full sentence is considered a
- >single
- >> word, and the cursor does not know where it is, mixing up
- >left-to-right and
- >> right-to-left directions. There is, however, a special version, Nisus
- >> International, that does accept non-European scripts and adds some
- >features
- >> to handle them. It costs about $450, no rebates (and is copy protected
- >with
- >> a dongle).
- >
- >Weird. Nisus 3.06 works fine with Hebrew, which is also right-to-left
- >(to the extent that I'm competent to test it, at least). I wonder why
- >it has problems with Arabic.
-
- Nisus does try it's best to use Apple's international capabilities. The
- word I've
- had is that Nisus has been holding back a new release that fully exploits
- the Text Services until Apple releases 7.1; we should be seeing it any
- time soon.
-