XO-1.75 -> Flash, Java?

C. Scott Ananian cscott at laptop.org
Thu Apr 14 01:31:17 EDT 2011


On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Alan Eliasen <eliasen at mindspring.com> wrote:
>   I considered it also a serious problem that the then-shipping
> configurations of the OLPC completely lacked fonts with glyphs for many
> languages (e.g. there were no fonts with Chinese or Japanese characters)
> so these languages could not be rendered in any application on the OLPC,
> including in the browser. This should probably be considered to be a bug
> in a supposedly-internationalized platform, and affects language
> learning, or even seeing what another language looks like.

The Chinese and Japanese fonts are *very* large.  I believe OLPC only
ships them to countries which need them, in order to make more space
for kids' stuff.
 --scott



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