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[Chris Woollard <cwoollard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kyle,

Don't quote me directly on this. This is as I remember from godbyk. I am
sure he will correct me if I am not exactly correct ;)

We use polyglossia for language support.


The following document lists supported languages (page 4).

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/polyglossia/polyglossia.pdf



Thanks
Chris


<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/polyglossia/polyglossia.pdf>

On 4 January 2011 16:13, Kyle Nitzsche <kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This project is using the ubuntu manual latex-based system to for source
> files and to produce pdfs.
>
> Instructions to the install latex related software (needed to build pdfs)
> says:
> "Note that not all languages are supported yet (especially those requiring
> non-Latin scripts)"
>
> ^^that's on the first page of Chapter 6 of the style guide linked to at the
> top here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/10.10/DeveloperManual
>
> QUESTION: Is this build system limited to producing pdfs for languages that
> use the latin script?
>
> If so, that would mean, for example, no Chinese, Russian, Greek, Japanese,
> Korean, Arabic, and etc.
>
> If so, are there plans in place to support the world's (major) scripts?
>
> Cheers,
> Kyle
>
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