Re: Does/Will/Might Jade handle Japanese text?

[James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David Megginson wrote:
> 
> Matt Gushee writes:
> 
>  > Anyway, I have an occasional and growing need to use Japanese in my
>  > work, and so I've been thinking about how or if I might be able to
>  > format SGML docs including Japanese text. I suppose the DTD needs
>  > to be set up to use a Japanese character set, but let's leave that
>  > aside for the moment. What I'd like to know is, can Jade currently
>  > process documents containing Japanese text (preferably EUC
>  > encoding, but I can convert it if necessary)? Or, as my reading of
>  > the docs suggests, is Japanese support possible but not currently
>  > implemented? And if it's the latter, is there any development
>  > effort underway?
> 
> Full support is already there (and has been from the first version of
> Jade), since Jade is built on top of SP.

It's not quite that simple.  There's some support in the RTF backend
specific to Japanese.

James



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