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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Re: HP-UX Plug
Message-ID: <688@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 88 06:32:57 GMT
References: <1367@edison.GE.COM> <4760011@hpirs.HP.COM>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <4760011@hpirs.HP.COM> wk@hpirs.HP.COM (Wayne Krone) writes:
>features and a set of standard (X/Open, ANSI, etc.) features.  HP, AT&T
>and others are devoting significant resources to the task of making
>many of the proprietary features part of standards which we can all
>then support in our implementations.  Through X/Open and /usr/group
>internationalization efforts, quite a lot of progress has been made in
>the area of supporting Western-European based languages.  We are just
>beginning to address the needs of Asian languages (see, for example,
>the multibyte support in the latest ANSI-C draft).

There is one major problem with HPs own NLS and the X/Open standard:
X/Open defines the ISO 8859 character set(s) as the 8-bit ASCII
characters for European languages whereas HP has chosen their
own propietary sets (ROMAN8, TURKISH8 etc..) and this is causing
A LOT of problems when you want to implement NLS in Swedish (and
Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, German ...)!  It's a pity that such
a great system like NLS on HPs can only be used together with HPs
own printers, terminals etc.  Reportedly VT200s nowadays have
ISO 8859-1 characters as an option.  Our secretaries don't like
this confusion (neither do they like the idea that you have to
hit two keys to get an umlaut-o, that is, an o with two dots on
top, on HP terminals).  Fortunately, there might be a way out
of this impasse: the xkeymap facility in X Windows.  

We use X Windows, UNIX editors and TeX with previers for producing
scientific report and articles. 

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