Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bmug!f444.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Sheldon.Greaves From: Sheldon.Greaves@f444.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Sheldon Greaves) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Foriegn Markets And Languages Message-ID: <254.24A2330E@bmug.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 22 Jun 89 15:02:34 GMT Sender: ufgate@bmug.FIDONET.ORG (newsout1.26) Organization: FidoNet node 1:161/444 - BMUG, Berkeley CA Lines: 24 Your point on the apparent lack of mulit-lingual capability on the NeXT machine is excellent and well taken. I might add that in add- ition to the problems created in the international marketplace, there is the same kind of frustration that I felt when the Mac came out. At the time, sales people were saying that the ability to use multi- ple fonts would make this a good machine for people dealing in foreign languages. I often work in as many as a half a dozen (human) languages, such as hebrew, greek, ugaritic, and so forth, but I have yet to see any evidence that this so-called "Academic Workstation" will do anything except for academics in the Computer Science, Business, or Engineering departments. I would love to know if there is any intention to introduce not only foreign character sets, but right-to- left or up-to-down capability, etc. as well. Thanks for an insightful comment. --Sheldon Greaves -- ------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNet: 1:161/445 UUCP: sun!apple!bmug! INTERNET: bmug!@apple.COM or @bmug.fidonet.org USNAIL: BMUG, 1442A Walnut St. #62, Berkeley, CA 94709-1496 ------------------------------------------------------------- BMUG Newsletter articles due June 15! Authors get free membership. Send articles to: pub@bmug.fidonet.org