Re: Displaying Plane 1 characters

From: Markus Scherer (schererm@us.ibm.com)
Date: Mon Nov 09 1998 - 09:36:29 EST


Sorry if this was answered before -

Microsoft Windows Win32 APIs up to and including NT 5.0 beta 2 ignore or even
mistreat surrogate pairs and other representations (UTF-8) of non-BMP
characters.
Conversions between UTF-8 and UCS-2 yield incorrect results for non-BMP
characters, at least if "correct" means UTF-16 as specified in Unicode 2.0 .
Non-BMP characters are destroyed in these conversions.
I don't know if the OpenType technology supports this.

markus

PS: Microsoft advertises compliance with Unicode 2.12 . I expect them to
fulfill it eventually...

Markus Scherer IBM RTP +1 919 486 1135 Dept. Fax +1 919 254 6430
scherer@raleigh.ibm.com



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