MacOS 8 + Cyrillic Language Kit
Kjetil Ra Hauge
K.R.Hauge at easteur-orient.uio.no
Sat Aug 2 12:29:42 UTC 1997
George Fowler <gfowler at indiana.edu> wrote
>
>Kjetil Raa Hauge, responding to Jerry Ervin, wrote:
>
>>What you describe is a lack of WorldScript-awareness on behalf of the
>>application you are using, not a fault of CLK or the system. The only
>>application I have that recognizes Cyrillic words when double-clicked, is
>>HyperCard.
>
>There must be some other applications sold in Russia which are also
>Cyrillic savvy.
I'll correct myself and elaborate a bit: among the functions you could
expect from a WS-savvy application are these:
- fonts are bound to their respective keyboard layouts, so that for
instance a Cyrillic kb layout is automatically selected when you select a
Cyrillic font
- double-clicking on a word selects it
- sorting routines
- lowercase/uppercase for conversion and search routines
- appropriate font in dialogue boxes instead of Chicago
- spell checking
I had a good look through my hard disks, experimented a little, and came up
with the following results:
HC SimpleText MarinerWrite FrameMaker NisusWriter
font binding yes yes yes yes yes
dblclk wd yes yes yes no ues
sort no(?) n/a n/a n/a yes
lower/upper n/a* n/a yes yes yes
dialogue font no no(n/a) yes no yes
spell check n/a n/a ? ? ?
*This function may be programmed by the user.
I was not able to find out about spell checking as I had no appropriate
dictonaries for the programs in question. Other WS-aware programs include
WorldWrite and ClarisWorks (A "trial version" of CW that I have failed font
binding, while succeeding in some other points).
-- Kjetil Raa Hauge, U. of Oslo. Phone +47/22856710, fax +47/22854140
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