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Tuesday, October 15, 2002
22:29 - So that's why the Dogcow is MIA from Jaguar...
http://www.itp.net/news/103468857296955.htm

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Mac OS X, because it's fully Unicode-based, can run applications in native Arabic and Hebrew text, as well as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and all the other fun languages that come with the system. (It's really cool how it's structured: you use the International pane to list a preference order for languages-- selected from a list of several dozen character sets and input methods-- and then, every application has a "strings" file (kept separate from the binary bytecode, as with the old editable Resource Fork) for each language the application developer decided to write it for. The application matches up the "strings" files that it has with your preferred languages, and picks the most-preferred match. Pretty slick, if you ask me.

Arabic is already supported in Jaguar. (I can go straight to arabic.cnn.com, for instance, and have all the text show up in beautiful anti-aliased right-to-left serpentine fonts.

But apparently they're going a bit further now. I'm not exactly sure what the ramifications are of this article, but it certainly sounds as though Apple isn't divesting itself from the Arab region or anything.

It is being developed by a team at Arab Business Machine (ABM) who represent Apple in the region.

The world-first sneak preview at GITEX shows the Arabic fonts already rendering beautifully smoothed by Jaguar's Quartz Extreme graphics system.

"It will be a fully Arabic operating system, including numerals," explains ABM's Product Development Manager, Ghassan Bendali.

"And it's easy to reboot back to English language at any time."

I don't know how this compares to Windows (if it's like the other languages Windows supports, you have to install a separate version). "Reboot back to English"? I dunno-- don't they just mean "restart your applications"?

Interesting times... interesting decisions.

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