laser-lovers@uw-beaver (05/02/85)
From: SUSAN%vax2.ox@ucl-cs.arpa Oriental scripts on a laserprinter and Macintosh or IBM PC ---------------------------------------------------------- The Oriental Institute in Oxford is considering a small network of Macintoshes or IBM PC's linked to a local laserprinter and to the Computing Service VAXes. The Macs or PCs would be used in a teaching environment to interrogate databases of literary texts which are stored on the VAXes. The results of the searches would be displayed in the original script on the screen or on the laserprinter. The following languages are of interest: Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Sanskrit, Armenian, Syriac, Hindi and possibly Chinese and Japanese. Has anybody done anything which might be relevant, particularly on the Macintosh and Laserwriter? Susan Hockey Oxford University Computing Service SUSAN%OX.VAX2@UCL-CS.ARPA
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (05/03/85)
From: LLi.ES@Xerox.ARPA I'm not sure whether Apple has oriental scripts on the Macintosh, but Xerox already has Chinese and Japanese word processing capability on the Xerox 8010 Star workstation and the 8044 laser printer. I am currently using the Chinese Star and it works fairly well. Two good articles on this subject are: J. Becker, "Multilingual Word Processing", Scientific American (7/84) J. Becker, "Typing Chinese, Japanese, and Korean", IEEE Computer (1/85) For your reference, I am also attaching excerpts from some messages I collected earlier on this subject. Leonard Li. Xerox 701 s. Aviation Blvd. El Segundo, CA 90245 (213) 536-7985 ------------------- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 84 09:13:27 est From: VENEZKY <venezky%vax1%udel-cc-relay.delaware@UDEL-RELAY.ARPA> To: info-mac@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA Subject: Chinese characters Has anyone developed Chinese character sets for the Mac? If so, are they the reformed PRC characters or the older characters? And how many? Dick Venezky University of Delaware ------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 84 21:40:19 est From: VENEZKY <venezky%vax1%udel-cc-relay.delaware@UDEL-RELAY.ARPA> To: LLi.ES Subject: Re: Chinese characters Leonard, No one has replied yet with information, although I have had one other request to share whatever is received. I wrote recently to the Chinese Language Computer Society, which held an international conference in 1982 on computer processing of Chinese characters. I've not seen any notices of published proceedings, however, just an ad for the meeting itself. Dick Venezky University of Delaware ------------------- Date: 7 Dec 84 16:10:01 PST (Friday) From: Becker.PA Subject: CStar Debuts in Taiwan cc: ......... Reply-To: Becker.PA With support from Fuji Xerox and many of the "cc:" people above, Taiwan Fuji Xerox is currently giving CStar its Asian debut at the "Information Week" exposition in Taibei, which runs December 1-9. The demonstration set-up includes two Dandelion workstations with Kiku displays and keyboards, plus file server and 3500 printer. When I left (two days ago), everything was running just fine. Fuji Xerox and Taiwan Fuji Xerox are both showing great interest in CStar, but are moving cautiously in this new territory. In the case of this "Information Week" show, they may have been a bit overcautious in selecting a booth site that was unfortunately rather out-of-the-way from the mainstream of visitors. However, Taiwan Fuji Xerox did do some press publicity, and I gave a long demo to an American reporter who writes for the English-language computer journals in Asia. Taiwan Fuji Xerox is also arranging a demo to the government organization that investigates various Chinese input methods. ............... Joe