[ On Tuesday, October 29, 2002 at 09:24:51 (+0900), Masao Uebayashi wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Translated manual pages 
>
> > There is an internationalized version of troff in Plan-9, as described
> > here (this paper was typeset by that verison of troff too):
> > 
> > 	http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/utf.ps
> > 	http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/utf.pdf
> > 	http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/utf.html
> > 
> > Plan-9 source code is supposedly now somewhat freely redistributable.
> 
> Internationalization of typesetting is more than a charset issue.  I
> can't believe Plan-9 troff knows Japanese typesetting rules...

That's probably something they left to be a macro package issue.

As the paper says, during the whole process of internationalizing Plan 9
they also ignored the issues raised by languages with right-to-left
writing styles.

But you can download the whole works and check it out for yourself!  ;-)

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