Subject: NOVELL support double byte character sets

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1991 06:41:12 -0500

Poster Note:

The purpose of this posting is to let people aware of the current
industry trend toward DBCS.

Terenec Kwan

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NOVELL affirms support for Double Byte Character Sets; gives
Asian customers NetWare in local languages

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Overview:    As    the    demand   for   NetWare   increases
internationally,  NOVELL  is  committed to supporting Double
Byte Character Sets (DBCS) in future releases of the NetWare
operating  system.   With DBCS support, NetWare customers in
Asian countries will see NetWare in their local language.

``NetWare's  support for DBCS is consistent with the growing
international  acceptance  of  NetWare,'' said John Edwards,
director of NetWare Products Marketing.  ``We intend to make
NetWare  available  in  native languages to customers in all
countries.''

DBCS  support  involves  enabling  the  operating system and
components/services   to   support   these   languages   and
translating  (localizing)  all  user-visible  parts,  (i.e.,
menus, messages, dates, time, alerts, and documentation), in
their native language.

Need for DBCS: Asian countries such as Japan, Korea, Taiwan,
and  China  require  DBCS  to support the characters used in
their writing systems.

Current DBCS Support: NOVELL recently announced NetWare J, a
Japanese version of NetWare which supports DBCS.

CONTACT: NOVELL Inc.  Michael Adams, 801/429-5809

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