From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-12-02T08:37:38+09:00
Subject: Re: when 1.9.0 will be released?


On Dec 1, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Trollen Lord wrote:

>> Unicode support is pretty convenient and useful working with OS X,
>> since Cocoa's NSString class is natively Unicode.
>>
>
> Where is Unicode not convenient really? Seriously, it was conceived  
> in '91
> or so to fill a genuine need, it is about time.
>
> I know it is not perfect (I have understood there are at least some  
> issues
> with supporting the asian character sets well) but it is a definite  
> step
> forwards.
True.
Depends which asian character sets.
One troublesome thing is being sure you have a font that includes the  
characters you need, or having some way of substituting another font  
that has the desired characters to display them.
Japanese fonts alone can be huge, covering several languages in one  
font. This can be convenient where storage space is an issue while  
supporting multiple languages.