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- From: k.vikor@alf.uib.no (Knut S. Vikor)
- Subject: Re: TextEdit, International Scripts and others....
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- References: <7NOV199211093584@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu><BxF9ny.KBK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <jenkinsj-091192085112@tseng.taligent.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 12:17:29 GMT
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- In article <jenkinsj-091192085112@tseng.taligent.com>,
- jenkinsj@blowfish.taligent.com (John H. Jenkins) wrote:
- >
- > 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!).
- > >
- > 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).
- Another option is WinText of France, a simpler and slower (and less
- expensive) multi-script word processor. There are also some older ones like
- AllScript (sold under the labels of RavK'tav (Hebrew) and Nousous
- (Arabic)). Same price level as WinText, rather less features.
- WordPerfect, MacWrite, MS Word, WriteNow are all non-Arabic compatible
- with the same sort of symptoms as described. Evidently, the problems for
- each script is different (The problems with Arabic is basically its
- left/right direction change), so a program that works with Japanese may not
- work with Arabic and vice versa.
-
- Knut S. Vikor.
- Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
- University of Bergen, Norway
-