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- From: jenkinsj@blowfish.taligent.com (John H. Jenkins)
- Subject: Re: TextEdit, International Scripts and others....
- Message-ID: <jenkinsj-101192100039@tseng.taligent.com>
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- References: <7NOV199211093584@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu><BxF9ny.KBK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <jenkinsj-091192085112@tseng.taligent.com><k.vikor-101192123745@mac31.sms.uib.no>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:03:47 GMT
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- In article <k.vikor-101192123745@mac31.sms.uib.no>, k.vikor@alf.uib.no
- (Knut S. Vikor) wrote:
- >
- > In article <jenkinsj-091192085112@tseng.taligent.com>,
- > jenkinsj@blowfish.taligent.com (John H. Jenkins) wrote:
- > >
- > > 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.
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