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- From: nerm@apple.com (Dean Yu)
- Subject: Re: What is different WorldScript I and II?
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <nerm-181292180515@90.10.20.86>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 02:08:00 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.070853.10170@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec17.160126.13867@tdb.uu.se>
- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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- In article <1992Dec17.160126.13867@tdb.uu.se>, bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats
- Bredell) wrote:
- >
- > Dongseok Choi (choi@gsbsrc.uchicago.edu) wrote:
- > : Hello, netters?
- > : According to MacWeek(12/14/92, p60),
- > : there are WorldScript I and II.
- > : Could you explain what's different?
- >
- > Apple divided all script systems in two parts. One of them concists of the
- > script systems where the text goes the "wrong" direction, and the other
- > contains the scripts that have special characters, like japanese and chinese.
- >
-
- This isn't correct. WorldScript I handles "one-byte" script systems;
- that is, scripts that can have their entire character set described by one
- byte. This is most of the world. WorldScript II supports the "two-byte"
- script systems; the systems that require two bytes to describe the entire
- character set, such as Japan, China, and Korea. The direction of script
- runs have nothing to do with it.
-
- -- Dean Yu
- Blue Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, etc.
- Apple Computer, Inc.
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