Subject Re: [IBO] howto: do unicode with IBO and FB 1.5.1
Author Helen Borrie
At 01:37 PM 23/08/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Rail <daniel@a...> wrote:
> >
> > Here's a thread in the forums, that might be useful:
> > http://www.fastreports.net/en/forum/index.php?
>showtopic=194&hl=unicode
> >
> > --
>
>Thanks Daniel,
>
>That thread does not help because I need to print chinese characters
>encoded in Unicode, not in Big5 or GB2312. The tricky thing about
>chinese characters is that only Unicode allow data to be readable by
>both Mainland chinese and Non-mainland chinese. Too bad that unicode
>support is still scarce while demand is high here. (Or too bad that
>china was split up before the infomation era.)

And even more "too bad" that NOT ONE SINGLE Chinese person has fronted up
to help or advise on defining the changes needed in the intl
module. Demand is one thing, supply is another...

Helen (speaking with Open Source "free" hat on...)