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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  foreign languages
Message-ID: <1990Dec9.044308.5357@alphalpha.com>
Date: 9 Dec 90 04:43:08 GMT
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In article <9012081218.AA21070@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU writes:
>> 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
None.  Most if you discount directionality.  I'd say all, but some
programs won't handle sign extension properly.  To properly do Arabic,
Farsi or Urdo you'll have to handle not only right to left layout,
but also occasional left to right.  

					-kee

(Okay, if you really wanted to you could store the text backwards,
but that's pushing it.)

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