From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Japanese
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:57:37 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020911225519.027c9c78@remote-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000501c25683$d991f100$0200a8c0@MATTHEW>
At 12:33 AM 9/8/2002 +0900, Matthew Huggett wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I was just looking at the files for dealing with Chinese in ConTeXt. How
>difficult would it be to handle Japanese? As I understand it, the standard
>Japanese encoding (jis) is 7-bit. Another plus is that Japanese is now
>frequently written horizontally, left to right (except in newspapers and
>novels). What would need to be done to get basic functionality?
japanese should be not that difficult to support
- labels
- encoding (i need fonts and more info and example)
- number conversion
so, mostly a matter of filling in some gaps; i think that most of the
mechanisms are there
Hans
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