From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9178 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Japanese Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:57:37 +0530 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020911225519.027c9c78@remote-1> References: <000501c25683$d991f100$0200a8c0@MATTHEW> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399523 1154 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:58:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:58:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Original-To: "Matthew Huggett" In-Reply-To: <000501c25683$d991f100$0200a8c0@MATTHEW> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9178 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9178 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------