On 07/29/2002 05:13:34 AM "Sinnathurai Srivas" wrote:
>Having considered the above, my estimate is (this is a figure plugged out
of
>the sky) it will take 15 years for mobilephones to support rendering of
all
>languages simultaniously.
As Roozbeh mentioned, you probably don't need mobile phones that support
rendering of all languages simultaneously, but can probably manage with
phones that do just those that your users need. As for mobilephone handling
complex rendering, I know that implementations do exist for Arabic; I can't
imagine why implementations couldn't be done for (non-"linear") Tamil. This
shouldn't be seen as a reason for script reform, therefore. (Srivas has
already pointed out that the reform is being considered for reasons other
than technology limitations, so this is just a passing comment.)
- Peter
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