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| From | Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.acorn.misc |
| Subject | Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts |
| Date | 2012-04-20 11:10 +0200 |
| Organization | MW Software |
| Message-ID | <bf0d4d8352.martin@bach.planiverse.com> (permalink) |
| References | (11 earlier) <367a758252.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk> <8616c98252.martin@bach.planiverse.com> <5282ccb375Paul@sprie.nl> <e759e78252.martin@bach.planiverse.com> <528311b64cPaul@sprie.nl> |
In message <528311b64cPaul@sprie.nl>
Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> wrote:
>>> At the risk of drifting off even further, is there any chance that
>>> you, Martin, or anyone else is going to develop a fully unicode aware
>>> RISC OS?
>> You would need to clarify what exactly you mean by that. What kind of
>> OS-level Unicode functionality are you missing? You can put RISC OS
>> into Unicode mode by setting the system alphabet to UTF8 (which means
>> Unicode filenames, Unicode keypresses sent to applications by the
>> Wimp, etc.), but most applications are not happy with that. So, it is
>> mainly the applications that are the problem. Some areas of the OS are
>> not fully Unicode aware, but that does not really make much of a
>> difference as long as you cannot really put the system into Unicode
>> mode in the first place because applications cannot cope.
> That more or less describes the dead end in which RISC OS currently is
> trapped, at least when it comes to unicode. I really would like to be able
> to use unicode fonts in, say, OvationPro, and to send e-mails is different
> encodings, for which I have to switch to our Windows laptop now.
Of course, but there is nothing that needs to be changed in RISC OS to
allow that, so if that is what you want, then you need to ask a
different question. Instead of asking for an improved OS you need to
ask for Unicode aware applications. Improving the Unicode support in
the OS will not make any difference at all as long as applications are
refusing to go Unicode.
This is not a chicken-and-egg situation because the existing Unicode
support is good enough to display, process and print Unicode text
(PostScript printing requires the PostScript 3 driver - credits to
John Tytgat for doing all the Unicode printing related work on that).
The main thing that is difficult in a non-Unicode desktop is entering
Unicode characters, but there are ways around that and for many
applications being able to receive and render Unicode text would be a
huge step forward already. The most obvious candidate in that respect
is of course EasiWriter/TechWriter because Word files have Unicode
content. However, that is a huge task and sadly only a small fraction
of the user base is interested in non-Latin text.
--
Martin
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RISC OS Software for Design, Printing and Publishing
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Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts castlevarich <castlevarich@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-24 05:17 -0700
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Jim Nagel <jimnewsm10d@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2012-03-26 22:27 +0100
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Stewart Brodie <stewart.brodie@ntlworld.com> - 2012-03-26 22:42 +0100
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-27 00:18 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts castlevarich <castlevarich@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-04 08:39 -0700
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-04 20:27 +0100
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-04-05 01:17 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts castlevarich <castlevarich@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 08:38 -0700
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-04-05 18:10 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts castlevarich <castlevarich@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-16 08:42 -0700
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-18 07:24 +0100
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-04-18 17:06 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-18 18:55 +0100
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-04-19 11:09 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-19 10:37 +0100
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2012-04-19 11:48 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-04-19 16:39 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2012-04-20 00:22 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-04-20 11:10 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2012-04-20 15:50 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-04-20 17:10 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-20 18:06 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2012-04-20 18:31 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2012-04-20 22:21 +0100
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Stewart Brodie <stewart.brodie@ntlworld.com> - 2012-04-21 02:15 +0100
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-21 05:06 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-20 17:54 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-20 17:47 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-04-23 08:00 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2012-04-23 10:16 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-19 17:00 +0200
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-20 23:30 +0100
Re: Increasing default line spacing in RISC OS fonts castlevarich <castlevarich@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-21 04:38 -0700
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