Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Java and hi_IN support

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 02:52:56 -0800 (PST)
Keyur Shroff <key...@ya...> wrote:

> 
> --- Arun Sharma <ar...@sh...> wrote:
> > 
> > The JDK 1.4 announcement that went out today claimed
> > hi_IN support. I've 
> > downloaded and installed the Linux version, but can't
> > find anything 
> > specific to Hindi. Does anyone on this forum know exactly
> > what the 
> > announcement means ?
> 
> I am not sure but this was probably for Java on Windows.
> Couple of weeks ago we searched on the internet for Java
> Hindi support on Linux. At that time we found that Java
> supports rendering of Indic scripts on Windows platform
> only and it was contributed by IBM. The classes were first
> designed by IBM then handed over to Sun. We also found that
> Java doesn't support Indic rendering on Linux. We really
> have to check it out for this latest version of JDK.
> 

 It works on linux also (since all betas ). I think it does this only
for swing. components. Harsha - please throw more light on this.

Regards,
Karunakar