(vaguely) Re: NB Update

[Peter Evans peterev@xxxxxxxx]

Nathan Sivin:

>It was good to have your update on Nota Bene. It would be even
>better if you were to let us know about the progress of support
>for Asian languages. A number of subscribers to the XyWrite list
>work in Asia, and others use Asian languages. . . .
>There is no satisfactory method for input now aside from using a
>Chinese or Japanese OS.

Whatever its other faults, WinY2K is international. The one you'd normally
buy in the US is as Chinese-capable as the one you'd normally buy in Taiwan.

If Windows isn't your bag, here's good news posted today to another mailing
list:

>The Corel sales people tell me that all of the applications
>in the Linux version of WordPerfect Office 2000 suite, scheduled
>to go on sale in mid-April, will allow display and input of
>Japanese. This is the plain English version, so the menus will
>be in English. Two versions of the suite will be offered,
>Standard for $110 and Deluxe for $160.

If it handles Japanese, I imagine it will handle Chinese just as well
(though I know nothing of FEP issues).

Yes, I too wish that DBCS were handled well by Nota Bene (and Opera).
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Peter Evans