Support for multi-byte languages in OmniWeb?

[Ken Case]

> It was really exciting to try out the features in OmniWeb.app.  I
> also discovered that we may use the Free Chinese font (provided by
> Jackson Inc. from Taiwan) to read usenet news directly off the
> Newsgrazer.  I tried to do the same thing with OmniView, I found
> there are some problems.  First, the preference option is not
> available right now.  Therefore, I cannot change the default font
> for the document view.  Secondly, there seems to be some difference
> in "big 5" symbol encription.  I can not decode the "Chinese big
> 5" document correctly.  I hope that when the final release is
> delivered, OmniWeb may include the capability to take care of double
> byte languages.
 

The release notes for an unreleased new version of the WWW Library includes  
support for multi-byte languages.

> The reason I brought this up is because that most other OS can only
> support double byte language decoding with seperate binary.  This
> is certainly a major road block on the Information Super Highway.
> If OmniWeb may take advantage of the multilingual capability of
> NeXTSTEP, it would be such a giant step ahead of all the X window
> system, Macs and MS Windows Products.
>
> If there is any one else who is working on this issue, please let
> me know.  If I can help out testing some of the software, I will
> be glad to help out.

At the moment, the thing which would help most would be a pointer to where we  
can get the Free Chinese font, and a URL which demonstrates the problem.  No  
guarantees, of course--but without those, we don't even know where to start.

We'll try.

				Ken