SignBank Menus in Chinese, Japanese, Arabic...

Dan Parvaz dparvaz at UNM.EDU
Thu Sep 12 02:42:24 UTC 2002


>> There is a unicode Arial font that is
>> quite large and contains many characters from a wide variety of 
>> languages
>> including Arabic, Japanese, and Chinese if I am not mistaken.

For those of us who happen to be using MacOS X, the latest releast 
(10.2, aka "Jaguar") handles Unicode pretty much right out the can. One 
caveat for Right-to-Left scripts like Arabic, is that you get better 
support out of UTF-16 than UTF-8... the single-byte version places 
punctuation on the wrong side of the line. To wit..

وسلامات للسيد محمد محمود!

:-),

Dan.



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