Arabic, CE and ME versions...

[manuel companys]

Le Thursday, 9 Jan 2003, à 03:46 US/Central, tkuypers at pandora.be a 
écrit :

>
> - FileMaker takes use of Unicode fonts, but we have to use special
>   CE-fonts for countries like Poland or Russia, because of the
>   special chars.

Normally you don't need Unicode for WE, CE or Cyrillic unless the 
language is not included in the correspondent ISO font map definition 
(latin 1 for WE for instance) you can also find fonts following other 
ISO definitions evenß though Apple doesn't use this possibility, 
preferring to switch to Unicode; I guess they are right: it would just 
be crazy, for instance, to take care of latin 3 (turkish, rumanian, 
esperanto, maltese) which has had few fonts developed, most of them 
featuring many SCII addresses not respecting the ISO guide lines!.

I do not have a good experience about Windows but I would be surprised 
if there were not a bunch of fonts for lots of  languages out there. 
Defining the keyboard map for an ergonomical input is certainly not so 
user friendly as with mac's resEdit, but it should be possible.
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I agree that Unicode is certainly the solution for the future, but now, 
I think one should consider that it might be other solutions; at least 
for some program types, concerning certain groups of languages, and for 
  most users outside the United Stattes, that will have to use slow 
modems and old computers for many years.

> Manuel