At 01:01 1/23/2002, James Kass wrote:
>In order to view Hindi Unicode pages in the browser on Win 9x,
>all that would be needed is an up-to-date Uniscribe ("USP10.DLL")
>which has a file size of between 300 to 400 kb. and an OpenType
>Unicode font covering the script.
>
>It seems that Peter Constable has asked this before on this list,
>but, is there any plan to distribute the newer Uniscribe with
>the Internet Explorer or ...?
IE 6.0 ships with build 397 of the Uniscribe DLL, the only later builds are
those that ship with Office XP (405) and Windows XP (407). As far as I
know, the only difference between these three builds are some minor fixes
and improvements. All three builds offer the following Unicode support and
script shaping:
- Unicode 3.0 support
- Simple - Unicode
- Arabic - Bitmap, Arabic Windows 3.1, TrueType Open, OpenType
- Combining (Vietnamese) - Unicode
- Hebrew - Bitmap, Hebrew Windows 3.1, Unicode, OpenType
- Indic scripts - OpenType
- Old Hangul - OpenType
- Surrogates - OpenType and @font
- Syriac - OpenType
- Thaana - OpenType
- Thai - Bitmap, Thai Windows 3.1, Unicode
I will try to get a list of the Indic scripts supported, but I know for a
fact that Devanagari is one of them.
The problem for Win 9x users, even with current browsers, is lack of a
system installed Devanagari font with OpenType layout tables. The version
of Arial Unicode that ships with pre-XP versions of Windows does not
contain layout tables for Indic scripts (I have not check the XP version,
but I know that this is something that Monotype have been working on for
Microsoft).
Windows 2000 and XP users who install Hindi language support will be able
to use the Mangal Devangari UI font.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
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