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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
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Subject: Re:  foreign languages
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Date: 8 Dec 90 12:18:22 GMT
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> What clients are available for input, output or display in languages
> other than English?

It's often forgotten, but many (most? all?) of the text-displaying
clients are perfectly capable of displaying in any language whose
graphic set can be fitted into a 256-glyph font, given an appropriate
font.  X comes with many fonts which claim to be ISO8859-1 (ie,
Latin-1); some of them don't actually have the \200-\377 characters in
them, but most, I believe, do.  I don't offhand recall which languages
are covered by ISO Latin-1, but it's certainly several non-English ones
(French, for example, seems to be covered, and from my minimal
knowledge of them, I would guess that Spanish and German are too).

					der Mouse

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