To make sure this blog will be a relevant discussion tool for its topic I will try to write a few words using German, French, Russian, Czech, Chinese and other samples.
1 German: Manche Mädchen mögen Blüten auf den Hüten
2 French: ça va jusque à la soirée
3 Russian: Яблоко - фрукт
4 Сzech: Jiří Jelašič český
5. Chinese: 拼音
6. Japanese: 蝶々
7. Hebrew:שר
Im delighted that Blogger has no problems of accepting input in these languages and evidently is Unicode compatible. I could have found this information by looking it up in Blogger's Help menu but by testing it I get more satisfaction. However, I posted this message from my Windows 2000 computer at work and when I later looked at it on my home computer that runs with an "ancient" Windows ME operating system the Japanese and Chinese characters were replaced by rectangular boxes. In other words, if you have problems to view text in other languages on your computer the best thing you can do is getting the latest operating system such as Windows XP. Windows versions older than Windows 2000 are not Unicode-based and will therefore more likely have problems displaying languages with characters in non-Latin script
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2 comments:
Will there still be problems displaying Indian languages if I have a computer with Windows XP?
Anonymous, Indian languages like Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and others have so far been rather neglected by Microsoft. Windows XP does support Hindi, Bengali, and some other languages but there have been insufficient efforts to convert locally encoded 7- or 8-bit encoding into Unicode. It can be assumed that more and more conversion tables will be integrated into Windows and that more and more software for these languges will use Unicode.
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