On Tuesday 03 June 2003 19:55, Amit Upadhyay wrote:
All the same it makes me wonder why chinese is first supported as international language these days by any software. Devnagri doesn't figure
May be coz they know kungfu better than us ;) [my guess is Chinese language is not as complicated as Indic ones from rendering/input point of view]
It is a lot more complicated.
anywhere most of the times. Despite the fact that mandarin script is quite difficult in structure than the devnagri. Some developer of X back then pointed out that it was due to lack of standard in implementation of fonts.
Only partly true. The real reason is market size all of the 1.2 billion of em (well almost all) read and write the same.