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From: Alvin@cup.portal.com (Alvin Henry White)
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Subject: Re: Looking for a multi-lingual word processor
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Date: 5 Jan 91 07:17:10 GMT
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Some one asked about multilingual word processors.  I sent this as
an email, and then thought the net is kind of dead this time of
year, maybe I post it to see if it raises any discussion

There is or was one out of Los Angeles area called The Universal Word, I got
that box buried around here somewhere. I bought it at a computer swap.
Never heard of it. I just collect them, seldom use. Did not use it.
If you need the address I can dig around. I though anything close to
Hollywood should have been fun.

The Public Domain Share Warehouse has a set of 11 disks, each one a different
language from a company called INTEXT on the East coast. I got that whole
set here somewhere. I think they wanted about $40 a set to register, except
chinese which they said they had but was not included.

I have a thing called Kuo Chiao which is a Chinese Language wordstar made
in Taiwan or there abouts. It does English and Chinese Kanji. The manuals
are all in Chinese. I can't read a word. Many control keys like wordstar.

These are all for the  ibm compatible pc. KC needs Hercules monitor. My
copy about 3 years old.

There is a company in Burlingame CA [by South San Francisco] called
Pacific Rim.  They sell MLS but may have others.

I put some non roman fonts, I remember Sanskrit, on a friends macintosh.
They were shareware.

There is a set called
Duangjan that is kind of old but it had Vietnamese,
and a bunch of others.

Some where I have a catalog for a company in Boston that has a few Asian
like Chinese, Tibetian, Sanskrit, Japanese but I think most are Mac.

One I would like to have is called Tien Ma. It requires a card. Is advertised
at about $600 somewhere in Canada I think. It is for Chinese. I haven't seen
it, just the advertisements.

alvin
Alvin H. White, Gen. Sect.
G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N.
Government Online Database Systems
Bureau for Resource Allocations to Information Networks
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