RE: Keyboard Layouts for Office XP in WIndows 98

From: Martin Kochanski (unicode@cardbox.net)
Date: Mon Mar 11 2002 - 08:52:53 EST


I'd love to make sure that Cardbox is one of those virtuous applications. Can anyone suggest a font that can be installed on Win98 and actually displays some surrogate characters?

At 22:58 10/03/02 -0800, Chris Pratley wrote:
>While it is true that in terms of absolute numbers most apps do not yet
>support UTF-16, it is worth noting that OfficeXP and anything based on
>mshtml.dll ver.6 (e.g. IE 6) or Riched20.dll v.4 (e.g. Wordpad in WinXP)
>do handle surrogate characters from UTF-16 correctly. So in terms of
>usage, surrogate support is covered pretty well as adoption of these
>newer versions increases.
>
>Chris



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