> Subject: RE>Unicode Support in Java Time: 08:14 Date:
> 96/03/22
>
> To the best of my knowledge (looking from the outside) this support is not
> yet in Java.
>
> It is not rocket science for someone to map to available host character
> sets for drawing, but it does take some work to do; I would suspect that
> Sun and/or NetScape is working on it.
True... however, mapping characters to multiple host fonts is trivial
compared to the problems of context-sensitive rendering and bidirectional
text. That is where the real work is... and it's no fun, especially in
performance-critical applications.
>
> Mark
>
Cheers,
-- Geoff.
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