Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!edison.cho.ge.com!rja From: rja@edison.cho.ge.com (rja) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Marketing wizardry & handling of far-east languages. Message-ID: <8910031130.AA06392@edison.CHO.GE.COM> Date: 3 Oct 89 11:30:17 GMT References: <1842@draken.nada.kth.se> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: rjaOrganization: GE-Fanuc North America Lines: 18 One need not have System V Release 4 to support several languages on one system concurrently. System V.3 has been supporting multi-lingual use for years now. AT&T sells several Native Language System (NLS) packages including support for both European and Asian languages (I'm not aware of Arabic support yet). Similarly, HP has NLS for about the same set of languages (though Japanese users would probably not want to use HP-UX since they used some non-standard character sets in their Japanese implementation and interoperability can be a problem { caveat: unless things have changed recently} ). The XEROX Star system (which I believe to be the basis of ViewPoint) is probably the most multilingual system on the market since it supports virtually all languages and can mix text in arbitrary ways in a file. (Aside: Their Chinese entry system is remarkably easy to use.) The Apple Macintosh can handle the ISO 8859 family of standards and Apple also has software to support Japanese/Chinese on the Macintosh. (Available through APDA for less than US$100.)