John McGehee

When you try to install files for East Asian languages, you are asked for a Windows XP installation disk. New computers have shipped with Windows pre-installed for a long time now, so few people have a physical Windows XP disk.  Here’s how to install without the DVD/CD-ROM.

Cross-platform CMake can generate a wide variety of build systems.  The CMake 2.8 project generator for Eclipse does not work, so you must create the project and configure it to build with GNU Make .  Here’s how to do it on Linux.

CMake creates software build systems for a wide variety of platforms based on a single, unified control file–it’s a makefile maker. You create the CMake control file once and based on this file, CMake will create almost any build environment for you: GNU Make for Linux, Eclipse project , Visual Studio solution for Windows, and the list goes on.

In this article I show you how to use multilingual UTF-8 strings with standard, unmodified OpenAccess oa-22.04p028 release. In the last  article , I introduced UTF-8, the popular 8 bit encoding of Unicode into multibyte character strings that can represent virtually every written language in history.  I presented the OpenAccess software changes required to fully support UTF-8 and showed you how to convert your existing application software to properly manipulate UTF-8 in the OpenAccess oaString class.

I once had a job scrutinizing Virtuoso schematics that contained many useful annotations written in Italian.  EDA tools generally support only ASCII strings, but the Italian designers were lucky–theirs is one of the few languages that can be written naturally using the same characters as English. Wouldn’t it be nice to annotate designs in OpenAccess databases using any of the world’s languages?  You can do it right now, using any OpenAccess release.

The PA system at work announced that I had a call. It was from Dr. Steve Butner, my graduate advisor at UC Santa Barbara . He was very excited. “John, I got some information here about this program that was just made for you.”

If you speak a foreign language, you would naturally like your children to learn it, too. However, look around you, and you will find that only a few children actually become fluent in their parents’ language, and fewer still can read or write it. We reared a Japanese/English bilingual daughter in the United States. To help you formulate a plan for your own family, I will describe the strategy we used.