Re: Multi-lingual cut & paste support (was Re: One for our asian language experts...)

[Kazunobu Kuriyama]

Pete French wrote:

> ....I can see anything in there about enabling multibyte characters (and
> at least I know what multibyte is these days). I can see the bits about
> the encodings and fonts, but I assumed with correct encoding and font
> it would "just work" ? I already have UTF8 set - can I not just set
> an asian font to see the characters ?

Please make sure you have had at least one .ttf or .ttc file for Japanese
characters (if you use -art), and have made an .nfont package with that font
file.  Usually, such a file includes Latin and Russian characters, too, so
you don't need other .nfont packages. A proper .nfont package is absolutely
essential.  Does your UTF8 set (though I'm not sure the exact meaning of it)
really have Japanese characters?

> This is where the font thing gets complicated I think - I want to have
> a text field into which people can type the Japanese text, followed by
> the english translation in brackets on the sameline (in thesame NSString).

Because I can do it with the current GNUstep, you can do it too once you 
find
a way to solve a font matter properly.

> Now I am quite happpy that the string can holdboth types of 
> characters, and
> it displays properly on a webpage - but I am not sure that there is 
> any way
> to get it to work properly in the text field so it can be edited ?

Again, the current GNUstep supports all you want to do.

If you want to enter Japanese text (or Chinese, Korean, ...) into text 
objects
with a keyboard, you need a help of an input method (=two server 
programs for
converting Latin characters to Japanese ones).  Without it, you hardly enter
a Japanese character into the objects with a keyboard.

If you only need to edit short Japanese text, you can use the GNUstep 
application
Charmap, found at
   http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/charmap.
With it, you can use copy & paste to enter any characters (existing ever 
on the earth)
into text objects.  The job may be compared to collecting printing types 
to make a
printed matter, a little bit awful though.

Cheers,
- Kazu