On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 16:40 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 05:51 -0700, Paulkey Fu wrote: > > > >> Dear Sir, > >> > >> I am upgrading my OpenOffice from NeoOffice to OpenOffice > >> 2.0.2. But the major concern is X11 on Mac does not > >> support Chinese. So there is no way to input Chinese > >> words. I was using NeoOffice (or WinWord) to type Chinese > >> for my papers. Is there any plan to support Chinese in the > >> future? > >> > >> > > > > I do not see why it wouldn't unless you have not installed appropriate > > fonts and Input Module such as SCIM. Use File > Wizards > Install fonts > > from the web to get fonts or use your system to do so. If you already > > have fonts, please see http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ and get a copy > > of How to Install OpenOffice.org 2.0.x (X11) in the language of the > > three offered and see if the section on fonts helps. > > > G.Roderick: > > It is not a failure on the part of OpenOffice.org to support Chinese > languages (be it Big-5 or Simple), but a failure of the X11 interface > from Apple for Mac OS X. X11, out-of-the-box, will not support > multi-byte languages. I passed this to the Mac OS X porting mail list > as there is a possible solution to this situation and to get the > Japanese Mac OS X team involved. > > James M. > Mac OS X Test Lead, American English > >
HOLY COW! I believe it but do not understand why a Apple would emasculate X11. Glad to know this. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/
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