Sunday, February 10, 2002, 4:58:08 PM, Eddie wrote: EC> The development of TB! is very advanced - currently at EC> v1.54beta39. There is a list discussing all pertaining to EC> TB!bata. You also can subscribe to EC> [EMAIL PROTECTED] an post your msg to EC> [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's a very interesting Group.
Very advanced in what context? What I am asking about actually, I guess, is the often referred to but somewhat phantom version 2. And my comment above is really about release versions, not betas. There hasn't been a new release version, highlighted on the TB home page, since June 19 of last year. I'm not really interested in running a beta, although a beta being developed with DBCS support would probably change my mind very quickly. Version 2, I heard, a long time ago, was supposed to be headed in the direction of DBCS support. I'd like to hear from someone who knows if this is still the case, or even if there is currently development being done on version 2 -- serious development, of course. I wouldn't be surprised if it's dying. E-mail clients are not fantastic money makers in the first place. I'd just like to know the current story. EC> If you want to have a TB!Japanese you better get in touch with EC> Ritlabs directly. I am not interested in a TB! Japanese. Not in the slightest. What I am interested in is a TB! English that can read Japanese e-mail, and that will let me input Japanese directly into its message editor. I hate to say this . . . but Microsoft is starting to get way ahead of the game here, with their Global Input Method Editor (IME). This allows almost seamless input of Japanese, Chinese, or Korean into English Office documents, or into English Web documents. Of course, it works just fine with Outlook, as well. EC> No need to look for alternative - there are non ;-) It's nice to be a fan, Eddie. I'm a fan, too, but I'm not a fan beyond all reason. I need to be even more international than TB! is at the moment. And sadly, there *are* alternatives. They may not be as great as TB! in some respects, but I need to be able to have Japanese e-mail functionality on an English system. If TB! can't give that to me, and fairly soon, for whatever reason, it's probably time for me to move on, even if that alternative is Outlook. I would GLADLY pay a bit extra for this functionality, mind you, even with MS is trying to shove Outlook down my throat for basically nothing, since it's really just a no-cost add-on to Office. Yuki ^_^ -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
