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RE: Vertical Japanese text

To: "'REALbasic Network Users Group'" <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: RE: Vertical Japanese text
From: "Lynn Fredricks" <fci at europa dot com>
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:07:22 -0800
Importance: Normal
> Could anybody tell me if it is possible to have an textbox 
> format text 
> in vertical columns, and have the columns appear right to 
> left, the way 
> Japanese text is supposed to be displayed? Unicode allows my Japanese 
> fonts to display with no problem, but it's not very useful if 
> it can't 
> be displayed vertically. I hope somebody can help me because 
> this will 
> determine whether I shell out for a copy of RealBasic. (I'm currently 
> trying out the demo)

Unless you are creating a specialized word processor-like product for the
Japanese market, its not necessary to display text vertically in Japanese.
Traditionally, Japanese is written top to bottom, but that's not a
requirement for publishing Japanese.

Best regards,


Lynn Fredricks
President
Proactive International, LLC

http://www.proactive-intl.com 



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