At 05:16 PM 6/20/2001 +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> Taiwanese read traditional chinese characters, but PRC people read
> >> simplied chinese. Even we take the same data, and same program (code),
> >> people just read differently. As an end user, I want to make the decision.
> >> It will drive me crazy if Perl render/display the text file using
> >> traditional
> >> chinese just because it was tagged as "Big5".
> >
> >Perl will (probably, whispers he, crossing his fingers) never
> >translate data that far. Perl (5) does not "display" chr(0x1234) to
> >me using Unicode fonts, it just pushes the octets to a file
> >descriptor/handle. Unicode is language-neutral.
>
>Perl may not, but I assume someone will be fool enough to give it a GUI.
>perl5.7.1+/Tk803.???-to-be will now make a stab at rendering Unicode
>(not a very good one I am the 1st to admit which is why it isn't released!).
>
>It would be good if Tk-for-perl6 did not have to break the rules or
>provide its own hooks for meta data and could use "the" string API.
What sort of things would Tk need?
Dan
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