What we need now is for QCTerm to support the
Chinese character set!  Think of the Market share!

(One of our sites in China already had a software package
on the HP3000 "disapproved" because the G/L and A/P
couldn't print in Chinese.)

We're missing on a potential ~1 Billion person market share here!

Tracy M. Johnson
TRW Automotive Electronics
Sensors & Components


-----Original Message-----
From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]

We will support diacriticals "soon" (in the finest Atmarian-calendaric
sense). The current version of QCTerm is written in 16-bit VB3. We found
font-switching to be extremely slow in this version of VB, thus we were
compelled to put the line-drawing characters where the European
diacritically-marked characters would have been, all inside one font. For the
vast majority of people, the line drawing set was more important initially
than the diacriticals.

We have two paths to adding diactricals to QCTerm open to us: one is to
convert all of QCTerm's code to VB6 and use DBCS (double-byte character
system). Instead of being limited to only 256 characters, we would now have
65,000 characters available to us in one font. The other is to develop a
fast-switching font routine, usable in either VB3 or VB6. We haven't decided
yet which one we'll do, but we will do one or the other "soon."

...[snip]