[6529] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
RE: WWW support for Cyrillic (and UNICODE)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henrik Frystyk Nielsen)
Thu Nov 3 00:04:05 1994
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 06:02:17 +0100
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From: frystyk@ptsun00.cern.ch (Henrik Frystyk Nielsen)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
> Adding multi-language capability to the Web is going to take time,
> because it will require changes to HTML, to servers, and to clients.
> Given the lack of multilingual support in most GUIs, a lot of new
> widgets will have to be created, and people will have to stretch
> themselves to learn how things like Japanese and Arabic scripts
> work. It's going to take time, but it appears we'll get there.
We are aware of the problem but we don't have the personal rescources
to do much about a practical implementation right now. The cyrillic
support is a one-timer and only made thanks to Anton Tropashko,
agl@glas2.glas.apc.org.
-- cheers --
Henrik
