RE: Can we read Arabic Text on English ver of Windows95

From: Lori Brownell (loribr@microsoft.com)
Date: Thu Jun 04 1998 - 14:59:27 EDT


Windows CE 2.0, shipping right now, has TrueType built in. The UI font is a
TrueType font.

OEMs who build their own CE boxes have the option to take out TrueType, but
I am not aware of any OEM who is doing that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey Waigh [SMTP:gpw@cybersurf.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 8:46 PM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: Re: Can we read Arabic Text on English ver of Windows95
>
> Lori Brownell wrote:
> >
> > I'm not certain what level of multilingual support exists on Windows CE
> > devices. I'll pass along your question to the Windows CE team.
>
> In particular could you see if they have reconsidered their decision
> to only support bitmap fonts in the display engine? Last time I was
> at a place considering CE, the lack of an option to use TrueType (Open)
> fonts [without writing our own rasterizer,] was a significant negative.
>
> Geoffrey



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