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- From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick)
- Subject: Re: TextEdit, International Scripts and others....
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:01:40 GMT
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- k.vikor@alf.uib.no (Knut S. Vikor) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- I would just like to point out that if a program works for one script
- and not another, then the programmer is not "doing it right". The
- Script Manager allows you to figure out all of the necessary information
- to properly handle any script. The programming is sometimes admittedly
- tricky, but it is certainly doable.
-
- pr
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- Pete Resnick (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?)
- Graduate assistant - Philosophy Department, Gregory Hall, UIUC
- System manager - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC
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