RE: nkf [was: RE: tlug: RE: cathedral and bazaar Japanese]

["Jonathan Byrne--3Web" <jq@example.com>]

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7ol : Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull@example.com>

>    jb> page is rather disappointing.  Apparently, "Japanese
>    jb> auto-detect" in the Linux version of Communicator means
>    jb> something less than that in reality.  The versions of
>
>100% "Japanese autodetect" is impossible with less than artificial
>intelligence.  There are some heuristics that help, but there is no

Well, that's true.  I guess what I mean is something like "it works better
in Netscape written for other platforms," which it does.  Works better in
That Other Browser, too.   But what toasts me far more is how Netscape's
File Bookmark feature, available on other platforms, is missing in the Linux
version.  That is a pain of royal proportions indeed, and something I
desperately hope they fix in the version 5, or that someone does.  It's one
of those things that falls into the "What were they thinking?!" category,
IMO.

>BTW, HotJava is probably fine if you have infinite RAM; it may be
>better now, too, but when I tried it a year ago, after an hour of
>browsing it had a footprint of 100MB.  Stomp!  Stomp!


It's supposedly better.  We'll see how much.  Having used it on Windows, I'm
not exactly expecting a lot, but who knows?  Maybe the generic version will
work better than the Windows one.  If it works well enough to at least use,
I'll be e-mailing them asking for a generic version of the HotJava Japanese
extension.  No, wait.  Why don't I just e-mail them for a full-blown Linux
version?  I know they might tell me to drop dead, since they want to do
stuff to encourage people to buy Solaris, but I'll ask anyway :-)

Jonathan

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