Re: Bengali Unicode Test Page

From: James Kass (jameskass@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 20:02:42 EDT


John McConnell wrote,

> 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.

A practical question is, how can a user like Peter Constable
upgrade his version of Uniscribe in order to get the desired
shaping support in conjunction with his copy of IE 6.x?

Best regards,

James Kass.



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