From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24305 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Chinese Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:55:19 +0100 Message-ID: <439E9A87.10702@wxs.nl> References: <20051213091446.283c7ce3@mx1.kerio.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134467750 13207 80.91.229.2 (13 Dec 2005 09:55:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:55:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Dec 13 10:55:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Em6sa-0007Nt-Bi for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:55:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B5A3127F9; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:55:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01011-01-4; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:55:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C88EC127F0; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:55:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C218127F0 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:55:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01011-01-3 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:55:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from controller-1 (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A361127EC for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:55:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 7470 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:01:51 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20051213091446.283c7ce3@mx1.kerio.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:24305 Archived-At: Richard Gabriel wrote: > Hello Hans, > > to be honest: I don't speak Chinese and don't know much about it. > A few days ago, I was told that we'll let translate some of our > documents (XML) into Chinese and Japanese and I 'll have to typeset them. > So I started playing with Chinese in ConTeXt. I've reported the > results which other users (e.g. Tobias) have also noticed. > In fact, all the sample Simplified Chinese documents I've tested it on > were easily convertible to CP936 (GBK) and could be typeset. This > doesn't mean that you shall not extend the Unicode support, I only > think I will not hardly require it... :-) > > But yet another question: What about Japanese? I've made only small > research so far, but unlike Chinese, there's almost no information > about Japanese in TeX. How much of work would be to adjust the current > "chinese" ConTeXt module for Japanese? What would you need for it? > [Of course, meanwhile I'll investigate some other ways of typesetting > Japanese...] it's all a matter of fonts and specs; handling those languages is not that complex the main complication is in the encodings (related to the input) and utf8 makes sense as common encoding; context (newtexexec) has provisions for runtime recoding what do the chinese users think of it ... Hans