RE: Unicode font for Mac?

From: John White (johnwhi@microsoft.com)
Date: Thu Aug 21 1997 - 23:26:58 EDT


        Are there language packs available for some of the charsets in
ISO-8859-1 through 9 range such as Greek as is asked below? Or are
scripts covering those only available through the localized OS? Or is
support expected some other way?

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Vincent DelGobbo [SMTP:sasvcd@unx.sas.com]
        Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 1997 1:51 PM
        To: Multiple Recipients of
        Subject: Re: Unicode font for Mac?

> On 8/20/97 5:22 AM, Vincent DelGobbo (sasvcd@unx.sas.com)
wrote:
>
> >I could not get Cyberdog to work at all. In fact, the only
> >encodings available from the pulldown were Western (MacOS)
and
> >Western (ISO 8859-1).
> >
> Cyberdog provides Unicode support by taking advantage of
installed
> Macintosh scripts and converting to them. MRJ and Netscape do
the same.
> Do you have any of the Language Kits installed?
>
> John H. Jenkins
> jenkins@apple.com
> tseng@blueneptune.com
> http://www.blueneptune.com/~tseng

        As far as I know, no language scripts are installed on the
        machine I tested on. I looked at the page:

          http://www.macos.apple.com/multilingual/languagekits.html

        Language kits for the following 7 languages are available
        at an approximate cost of $900 total (+tax +shipping):

          Arabic & Persian
          Chinese
          Cyrillic
          Hebrew
          Indian
          Japanese
          Korean

        I am interested in supporting at least ISO-8859-1 through 9,
        and it looks like some needed language packs may not be
        available. What do I do about Greek? Do I really have to
        pay $900+ because I want to test my HTML for other languages?
        Why isn't the converted Cyberbit enough (at least for NS 4.01)?
        I did not see any mention of Unicode anywhere on the page.

        Thanks,

        Vince
        sasvcd@unx.sas.com



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