Re: lag time in Unicode implementations in OS, etc?

From: Markus Scherer (markus.scherer@jtcsv.com)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 18:19:40 EDT


so, what is there to be turned on and off in win2k if surrogate pairs are already handled as single units?
if fonts just don't contain mappings and glyphs for pairs, then the layout engine will ignore them anyway until fonts provide that data.

markus

> John McConnell wrote:
>
> Windows 2000 does support surrogates as defined in Unicode 2.0 e.g. it recognizes them when
> converting to/from UTF-8 & OpenType recognizes new cmap types for surrogates.

that's great!

> The remaining steps e.g. fonts that display Ext B and sorting methods that integrate surrogate
> pairs in culturally correct ways, depend on the final assignments of the new ranges. That isn't
> in Unicode 2.0 (or 3.0).

of course.

> Chris Pratley wrote on 2000-oct-03:
> > Surrogate support was not turned on by default in Win2000 because the
> > Windows team was waiting for the standard to be finalized. It was also added
> > late, so to reduce the potential impact they had it off - a safe bet since
> > the standard was still 1+ years from completion.
>
> which standard? unicode 2.0 introduced surrogates in 1996. iso 10646-1 got amended with utf-16 in 1996, too.
> there was nothing new in the technical issues of how to deal with utf-16 since then.
>
> > Chris



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