I suggest you look at tools that in one way or another produce SVG. SVG is based on XML and therefore supports Unicode.
Please see http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ and http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/SVG-Implementations.htm8#svgedit and below. Please note that not all tools may support the same range of Unicode characters, but because SVG is XML, you can also separate graphical drawing (in a drawing tool) and text editing (in an Unicode-capable plain-text editor). Regards, Martin. At 11:27 01/12/06 -0500, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: >I need a vector based illustration program such as Visio or Adobe >Illustrator that can handle signiifcant numbers of non-European, >non-Latin-1 characters. Otherwise, my needs are very simple (Just circles, >squares, and text really) I've been using Visio 5, but it won't go beyond >Latin-1; and as near as I can tell from Microsoft's web site Visio 2002 is >no better in this regard. I only need to draw one figure, so I'd rather >not spend a fortune. I could use it on either NT, MacOS 9, or Linux. Can >anyone suggest a drawing program that might suit my needs? > >As a last resort, I suppose I could write a Java program to auto-generate >an SVG image, but that feels a little like using a hearse to haul dirt >around my farm. It would probably work, but isn't really the right tool >for the job. :-) > >-- >+-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ >| Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | >+-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ >| Java I/O (O'Reilly & Associates, 1999) | >| http://www.ibiblio.org/javafaq/books/javaio/ | >| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1565924851/cafeaulaitA/ | >+----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ >| Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | >| Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | >+----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ > >
