Still no Hebrew/Arabic?

[Dov Isaacs]

FWIW, FrameMaker's code base was not "rewritten" but rather, modified to
support Unicode.

Unicode support does not necessarily include support for "input methods"
for all writing systems. FrameMaker doesn't have input methods for either
Hebrew or Arabic, which by the way although both are right-to-left languages
each have to have their own input method when considering issues associated
with ligatures, vowels, etc.

	- Dov

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shlomo Perets
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:01 AM
> 
> Richard,
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> >I'm pretty certain FM9 still doesn't support right-to-left languages,
> >but before giving someone a definitive answer, I thought I'd
> >double-check with the list.
> 
> That's correct -- no news with respect to right-to-left languages in FM9.
> 
> With all versions of FrameMaker/Windows, you can add some isolated strings
> in Hebrew/Arabic (but without correlation between cursor location/selected
> text and the "real" insertion point).
> 
> >I know this is a frequently-requested feature, and now that the code
> >base has been rewritten and Unicode is supported, it should be possible
> >-- albeit still difficult -- to implement it. Anyone have any special
> >insight (or well-grounded speculation) on when or if this might happen?
> 
> My speculation is that support for right-to-left languages does not seem
> likely, despite the implementation of Unicode in FM.
> 
> 
> Shlomo Perets