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Hi, Norbert,
Here is some status on the Asian support in Pathworks
for Digital UNIX. I am working on that support for the next
release of Pathworks (I think it will be V7.0).
The current and previous releases (V6.1 and back) do not
have any Asian support. They assume that all characters are
Latin-1 characters (ASCII + Western European).
The next release will support Japanese and possibly
other Asian languages. Would you like me to include Chinese
support too? Would your customers?
The reason I ask is that the Japanese support is currently
at the top of the list. The Chinese support is lower for two
reasons: It is more difficult to implement (because of the
plane 2 characters) and there has been less market demand for
it. If you and your customers really need it, please let me
know, as well as my product manager, Anne Milliard
([email protected]).
Thanks,
Tom Woodburn
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| Hi Tom,
Thanks for your reply!
> The current and previous releases (V6.1 and back) do not
> have any Asian support. They assume that all characters are
> Latin-1 characters (ASCII + Western European).
>
> The next release will support Japanese and possibly
> other Asian languages. Would you like me to include Chinese
> support too? Would your customers?
We and our customers would certainly need chinese support on
both Pathworks servers and clients!
Especially for some client utilities like VT382 and SETHOST
that supported in "Pathworks/Hanyu for DOS/Windows V5.0"!
These utilities do not work in Windows-NT/95 chinese versions.
As for chinese-filename problem for Pathworks/OVMS, we had found
the cause of the problem -> VMS convert lowercase characters to
uppercase! VMS does not support storing filename in lowercase!
To solve this problem, either VMS needs to support lowercase filename
(like Unix) or Pathworks Server changes the filename encoding method.
Anyway, I'll pass these information to my direct manager and
thanks again for your reply!
Norbert Lai / TSC Taiwan
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