rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) (09/28/89)
In general: There was a good review article in Scientific American a couple years back by someone from Xerox (Star workstation) on multi-language and oriental language processing. Apple's Toolbox has good ideas too. See the script manager chapter in Inside Macintosh. X-Windows Chinese: there was exchange of public domain stuff on soc.culture.china this summer. Some is reposted on hanauma.stanford.edu anonymous ftp. Four issues: (1) Font. There is an X-Windows mainland simplified character font in public domain. (2) Interchange standard. Lots of controversy. Many proposed standards. Taiwan versus mainland versus hongkong proposals. Proprietary versus public. The bdf stuff above may be adequate. (3) Index to font. Pronunciation(foreign preference) versus stroke-ordering(native preference). Syllable(public domain) versus multi-syllable words(less ambiguous, proprietary). There is a pronunciation index in above ftp. (4) Applications. Some proposed--word processing and read-news. Write your own in XWindows using above font and index. It works!