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- From: jenkinsj@blowfish.taligent.com (John H. Jenkins)
- Subject: Re: TextEdit, International Scripts and others....
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:57:21 GMT
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- In article <BxF9ny.KBK@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete
- Resnick) wrote:
- >
- > I seem to remember that Nisus might call the Script Manager routines,
- > but I am not absolutely positive. My guess would be that more and more
- > word processors will in the future (boy, I hope MacWrite Pro does when
- > it comes out given how long it is taking!).
- >
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- 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. (By "nasty" I
- mean the ones that send word processors like Word into fits because they
- don't know what to do with them.) It is painfully sluggish in getting
- input from TSM-based input methods used with System 7.1, but I
- understand a TSM-aware version is in the works which should correct
- this.
-
- WordPerfect also manages non-Roman scripts fairly well. I haven't tried
- it on a right-to-left script like Hebrew or Arabic to see how well it
- does there, but it can manage Chinese and Japanese. Its interface in
- this area is pretty lousy, however.
-
- I'm hoping that Claris will have been smart enough to use the Script
- Manager with MacWrite Pro, if it ever shows up.
-
- Hypercard uses styled TextEdit, and so you get the Script Manager for
- free (plus the 32000 character limit). Most Macintosh development
- systems provide sample text editors to show how they can be implemented;
- these will also typically use TextEdit or styled TextEdit and so handle
- non-Roman scripts correctly--with the 32 Kb limit. This is how I do all
- my non-English text processing, personally.
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