java / linux

[tedm@example.com (Ted Matsumura)]

>Hi,
>  As I'm still on here, I'd like to give some feedback and opinions ;)  Java
>is still primitive with Japanese characters.  Some of you may have seen our
>"Javaoke" demo by James Liu, fixed up for kanji by Gary Hildebrand and Naomi
>Smith, and server/httpd support by Twics at the Networkd + Interop show last
>week.
>
>It took a lot of work to get the Japanese running, since there is no
>Japanese font support in Java 1.1x yet.  Gary and Naomi aren't on this list,
>but they are on the "life-in-Japan" mailing list.
>
>Unicode support is in Windows NT, and possibly other OS's, but not all
>applications want to support it for a variety of reasons, backwards
>compatibility with old Japanese databases, not having each and every
>Japanese and Chinese character in there, etc.
>
>I have to admit, Java is a cool technology, but is it a practical one?  I
>have yet to see the killer app for it.
>
>Ted

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