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Originally published on 9/25/97; 0:42:31 PM Frontier 5 and Double-byte Languages: Strategies Practical Suggestions for making Frontier speak to new users and markets
	Here's a look at the present situation and some possible directions for the future. Frontier and Double-byte Languages Today As of Frontier 4.2.3, there is no built-in support for double-byte langauges. There is only one effort, based on Hideaki Iimori's UCMDs, that offers patches for double-byte text. These patches work for these double-byte languages: Japanese, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Korean, Hebraic, and Arabic. Frontier's Platforms and Japanese Most of the double-byte work in Frontier (to my knowledge) has been conducted in Japanese. Focusing on that market, here is a run down of Frontier's platforms and the character encoding for Japanese on that platform. S-JIS Unicode Frontier Platforms MacOS Win95 Windows NT Non-Frontier Platforms BeOS Rhapsody MacOS is in bold in the above table because it is the only one that has Japanese support currently.
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