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Elliotte Harold wrote: > XML has much better support for more languages than any word processor > or operating system I've ever seen. (Here I do mean the end user > definition of an OS such as Windows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, etc; not just > the CS definition of OS) > > Maybe there's a Linux distro somewhere that supports Cherokee, > Cambodian, or Amharic. There certainly isn't Windows or Mac OS X that > does though. I used polytonic Greek Unicode for years before I had an operating system that really supported it. And I did this largely in XML, which fortunately did not prohibit characters in the language I cared about. I had to use tools that most people using the operating system did not use. If you have a font, a keyboard driver, and an editing environment that support your language, you're able to do most things. I'm using Fedora 8. Just for laughs I went to Alan Wood's Cherokee page to try out the first language you mention: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/cherokee.html It displayed properly using Firefox. I tried copying this to OpenOffice's word processor, it did not display properly, and switching to the Gentium font didn't seem to help. But I also copied it into gedit, where it worked perfectly. I wasn't able to find a keyboard driver for Cherokee, we don't seem to ship one as part of our standard distribution ;-> I didn't try any of these with the other languages (my time for such things is limited). Jonathan
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