Re: NOT !!: AppKit-320 PPC only root available

From: Aki Inoue (aki@apple.com)
Date: Thu Feb 19 1998 - 23:05:40 EST


> From: Bob_Hallissy@sil.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 18:33:30 -0800 (PST)
> To: Multiple Recipients of <unicode@unicode.org>
> Subject: Re: NOT !!: AppKit-320 PPC only root available
> X-Uml-Sequence: 4951 (1998-02-20 02:33:32 GMT)
>
> Microsoft Windows (at least Win95) does something weird with character
> 183 in codepages 1250-1258; perhaps someone can shed some light on it
> for me:
>
> If I ask MultiByteToWideChar() to translate character 183 to Unicode,
> it converts it to U+00B7 (MIDDLE DOT). This matches the Vendor tables
> supplied with the Unicode 2.0 standard.
>
> However,
>
> If I call TextOutA() to display character 183, Windows displays the
> character at U+2219 (BULLET OPERATOR)
>
> This seems to be the only exception that I can find to the conceptual
> model that says TextOutA() is equivalent to a MultiByteToWideChar()
> followed by TextOutW().
>
> Does anyone know why MS does this, or of what benefit it is?
>
> Bob Hallissy
>
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> Subject: Re: NOT !!: AppKit-320 PPC only root available
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 98 19:06:56 -0800
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> > From: Aki Inoue <aki@apple.com>
> > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 98 18:20:48 -0800
> > To: Aki Inoue <aki@apple.com>
> > Subject: Re: NOT !!: AppKit-320 PPC only root available
> >
> > > From: Aki Inoue <aki@apple.com>
> > > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 98 16:48:39 -0800
> > > To: Aki Inoue <aki@apple.com>
> > > Subject: Re: NOT !!: AppKit-320 PPC only root available
> > >
> > > > From: Aki Inoue <aki@apple.com>
> > > > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 98 16:32:18 -0800
> > > > To: Aki Inoue <aki@apple.com>
> > > > Subject: Re: NOT !!: AppKit-320 PPC only root avail



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