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From: freund@nada.kth.se (Peter Freund)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Chinese Talk
Message-ID: <542@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 26 Aug 88 18:50:54 GMT
References: <139@lloyd.camex.uucp> <15975@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: mrfung@nada.kth.se (Lars-Erik Fredriksson)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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Keywords:APDA and sriptmanagersupport

Well this is not quite true. Apda has some of the Systems that use the script-
manager. (If there hasn't been a recent change. I know they have the Japanese
and the Turkish and the arabic system software but as far as I know thats all
The information they included in writing was also quite old. And there is a
new revision of the scriptmanager that is (supposedly documented but not
widely distributed and again as far as I know not through APDA. The only way
I know is to get it through the company that Apple Hong Kong suggests namely
Sun Business Machines Ltd. 8/F, Tsuen Wan Ind. Centre,
220-248 Texaco Road Tlx:    45628 FUJI HX Fax:
04996607 Contact:  David Sun/Dennis Sun Tel:    (852)04998168
They charge 100 HK$ and I know there was a version 1.1 in the making early
this spring (don't know if its ready yet please let me know 8-{)
mail me If you cant find it there may be other ways. Like Gilman office
machines in Hong Kong or similar ...
When are we going to see any *real* ScriptManagerrelying WordProcessor
If Apple wants to be International they should hire a few more programmers
to do the ultimate Monolitic ScriptMAnager System were you could add the
different National Resources to the systemfolder just like Inits and CDEV's
nad flip from Japanese to arabic to Mongol (yes top to bottom direction!!!)
and so on. Hope this happens soon and that effort is made to bring the
documentation up to date. As it is now I'm not sure if the national indepen-
dance that is practiced by APPLE is going to benefit them in the long run
without some more overreaching allencompassing enlightened grip of the inter-
national market! Hope that helped some too...
 
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone,
 "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor
less."
 
mrfung@nada.kth.se (Lars-Erik Fredriksson) PS. Will be back reading mail
late september! BTW there is 2 new sets of the Chinese standard including
more than 14000 new characters that will be released soon, is APPLE going
to include them as well in the systemsoftware ?

bye