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[Kyle Nitzsche <kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,

That list of supported languages does not seem to include Chinese (Simplified or 
Traditional), Japanese, or Korean (for example).

Does Ubuntu Manual support any of these?

Is there a way to support these in a latex system?

And the BIG question: if Latex does not support these scripts, does that present 
an obstacle for its use to produce this document?

As an aside, I have used apache fop to produce pdfs in Chinese (and Cyrillic, 
and others) from docbook.

Cheers,
Kyle

On 01/04/2011 11:45 AM, Chris Woollard wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
> On 4 January 2011 16:13, Kyle Nitzsche <kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto: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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