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From: willie@Eng.Sun.COM (Willie Jow)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re:  I18N?
Message-ID: <7z6xabt@openlook.Unify.Com>
Date: 19 Dec 90 01:36:47 GMT
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In article <ejbyui3@openlook.Unify.Com>, kk@shasta.tivoli.com (Kerry
Kimbrough) writes:
|> 
|> Apparently, none of the OPEN LOOK toolkits support international text
strings.
|> That is, text that uses character encodings other that ISO Latin-1, a
la Motif
|> compound strings. In fact, none of the toolkits are really clear
about what
|> character set *is* used.
|> 
|> So, USL, Sun...what's going to happen here?

Sun has already announced Japanese OpenWindows a few months ago.  A
limited release will be available shortly and a general release will
follow soon after.  In these releases, EUC (extended Unix code) is used
to handle multibyte characters.  This is consistent with SunOS and
SVR4.


Willie W. Jow
willie@Eng.Sun.Com
Windows and Graphics Software