RE: Bengali Unicode Test Page

From: John McConnell (johnmcco@windows.microsoft.com)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 18:23:10 EDT


There's a common Indic shaping engine in Uniscribe, which is why you see latent support for Bengali and Malayalam. However we (Windows) aren't shipping fonts for those yet and thus testing isn't complete. It's conceivable we'll find (and fix) bugs for these scripts in the next release. There's only one Uniscribe and all the Indic work is in the mainstream but different products have shipped it at different stages of development.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: James Kass [mailto:jameskass@worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 2:38 PM
To: John McConnell; unicode@unicode.org; Peter_Constable@sil.org
Subject: Re: Bengali Unicode Test Page

John McConnell wrote,

> Bengali isn't one of the Indic scripts we claim to support in
> Uniscribe (or elsewhere) yet. So far we support Devanagari,
> Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada.

Bengali isn't considered to be enabled on Windows platforms yet because Windows doesn't offer sorting, keyboard driver, font, and so forth. But, some shaping support for Bengali is supposed to be included in the Uniscribe which ships with W2K, Win XP, Office XP, et cetera.

Using Uniscribe version 1.407.xxxx.x here, shaping support exists for Bengali and also Malayalam. Hopefully, shaping support for these scripts and others, like Khmer, Lao, Myanmar, et cetera, will be added soon to the mainstream USP10.DLL along with an upgrade mechanism so the phrase "When the World wants to talk, it uses Unicode" will become a reality.

Best regards,

James Kass.



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