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Document MSC 1. MtScript/Overview.
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MtScript is a multi-lingual text editor, developed within the MULTEXT project, which provides facilities for creating and saving files in a wide variety of languages and corresponding character sets. MtScript provides the following main capabilities:
- the use of several different writing systems (Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.) in the same document;
- interspersing left-to-right and right-to-left writing systems
(e.g. :
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- explicit association of portions of a text with a particular language;
- the definition of user-modifiable writing rules for each language;
- use of a standard keyboard for any language and character set;
- co-mingling of one-byte and multiple-byte character sets (ISO 8859 series, GB_2312_80, BIG_5, JISX0208, KSC5601).
MtScript has been developed on Sun Workstations using X-Windows, Unix, C, and Tcl/Tk. A compiled alpha version (v1.1) is available for Sun Sparc stations under Solaris 1.x or 2.x. Note that this version still has bugs and limitations. Your feedback is welcome.
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