Re: multilanguage environment

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Sunday, April 21, 2002, at 05:22 PM, Björn Gohla wrote:

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> i am having big trouble working with non latin scripts in gnustep, is 
> there
> nobody out there working with languages that use non-latin scripts?

Check the mailing list archives ... at least there is Yen-Ju Chen using 
chinese.

> does
> gnustep not use unicode to encode strings internally?

Yes, it does where appropriate.  More importantly, the string handling 
API
(NSString class) lets you operate with 16-bit unicode characters 
irrespective
of the actual internal encoding used.

> i do have iso-10646-1
> fonts installed on my system, why can gnustep not use them?

Don't know - rather depends on what you are trying to do I guess.
What do you have your GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING set to?