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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KOffice and Unicode
From:       "Yannai A. Gonczarowski" <yannaigo () leyada ! jlm ! k12 ! il>
Date:       1998-07-11 18:27:08
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Jacek Konieczny wrote:
>
> So the Unicode seems to be the best solution. In can be used to represend
> practically any character - all alphabets and a lot of mathematical and
> 'dings' symbols. It is very portable, and many packages uses it now.
> It seems it will be a standard in a few yers time.
I agree.

> KDE even now have some Unicode support, but it was developed for HTML and
> e-mail use. Qt doesn't help much in this matter.
Not true. Qt 2.0 will have full unicode support including bidirectional
writing using the unicode bidi algorithm.

I think that everything BUT displaying should be converted to unicode ASAP,
and the widget/display support should only be converted to unicode when Qt 2.0
will be out.


Regards,
Yannai.

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