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From: indra@brahms.amd.com (Indra Singhal)
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Subject: Re: Wordprocessor that produces Hindi characters?
Keywords: Wordprocessor, WordPerfect, Hindi characters
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Date: 21 Jan 91 06:27:28 GMT
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coa44@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Mark Scase) writes:

>There has been recent discussion of wordprocessors that can produce
>foreign character sets.  Does anyone know of a wordprocessor that
>can produce the Hindi character set?

>I am presently using WordPerfect 5.1 but, as far as I know, that
>cannot produce Hindi.

>Mark Scase
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In 1988, PC Magazine used to carry the following ad:
"World's Bilingual Word:
	DuangJan 1.3, bilingual word processor for English and of these:
	Armenian, Bengali, Euro/Latin, Greek, Hindi, Khmer, Lao, Russian
	Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Viet, ... or create your own language with
	font editor. $69 + $4 s/h in US and Can. ($10 s/h foreign). for
	IBM compatibles with graphics & dot-matrix printer. Laser Jet
	add $49. Demo $5.

	MegaChomp Company,
	3524 Cottman Avenue
	Philadelphia, PA 19149-1606
	USA
	215 331-2748/8138."

Now that I dug this out of my attic... if you get any further.. please
let me know via e-mail.

Good Luck.
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