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Japanese characters on OO.o presentation--> i18n



On Thursday 16 March 2006 10:28 pm, Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>
> I need to do a lot of study and "digging" for i18n in Linux; I want an OS
> (and e-mail composer) that can insert any Unicode character, and render
> most major writing systems. Right now, Libranet (nice Debian derivative)
> is very disappointing (ASCII only!) in its default configuration for
> e-mail composition in Opera (It's not Opera's fault, just about sure.)
> I'll be migrating to a newer machine RSN, and will really start to be
> serious about i18n when I do that. So far (I havent really tried),
> Libranet renders most writing systems just fine. (Yes, I do know about
> Yudit, although I tend to forget about it; shame.)
> *L18nux, anyone? Only ~90 Google hits!
At home I use sylpheed-claws as my email client. I have had no problem 
inserting characters into it. I've used Hebrew and Greek. Not sure about 
Japanese, but the underlying client, sylpheed, is written by a Japanese 
guy.

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