Japanese

Japanese

[Matthew Huggett]

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?

Re: Japanese

[Hans Hagen]

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

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                   Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl
                       Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
  tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf
                     documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf
-------------------------------------------------------------------------