Adobe support (Re: Re: MS shuts down Win98)

From: N. Ganesan (naa.ganesan@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jul 12 2006 - 06:01:38 CDT

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    Omi Azad wrote:
    >They are happy with it and also doesn't need to upgrade and doesn't
    need any support from Microsoft. Most of the people doesn't
    >care about Unicode. They are still happy with hacked ASCII fonts
    because we use computers for DTP and Unicode doesn't work
    >on DTP applications like Adobe's products. :(

    True, the net connectivity and % of population using computers/net
    etc., in India, Bangladesh is low.
    Unicode is useful mainly on the internet.

    Next two UTC meetings are hosted by Adobe:
    http://www.unicode.org/timesens/calendar.html
    Hope Adobe supports Indic Unicode in the future
    in more and more of their products.
    InDesign, Illustrator, Freehand, Photoshop - the Adobe software
    should support Indic Unicode.

    Does anyone know of any plans by Adobe to
    support Indic Unicode in 2007?
    N. Ganesan

    On 7/12/06, Omi Azad <omi@ekushey.org> wrote:
    > This will not impect on the users.
    >
    > Many people are using Win9x and doesn't have any problem with that, though
    > they are using 7-10 year's old OS.
    >
    > They are happy with it and also doesn't need to upgrade and doesn't need any
    > support from Microsoft. Most of the people doesn't care about Unicode. They
    > are still happy with hacked ASCII fonts because we use computers for DTP and
    > Unicode doesn't work on DTP applications like Adobe's products. :(
    >
    > Omi
    > >
    > > ----- Original Message -----
    > > From: "N. Ganesan" <naa.ganesan@gmail.com>
    >

    > > > MS shuts down Win98:
    > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5164450.stm
    > > >
    > > > Actually, this is good news for Unicode Indic.
    > > > Take the instance of Tamil in Tamil Nadu, India.
    > > > Not only many users users still hang onto Win98,
    > > > but cling onto client servers like Eudora
    > > > (which turns Unicode Indic texts sent via them
    > > > into ???? series).
    > > >
    > > > Likewise, hope Yahoo provides good support
    > > > for Unicode Indic in yahoogroups with search capability,
    > > > (and hopefully reduce hacked encodings in use.
    > > > Even right now, the 8-bit encodings for Indian languages
    > > > such as Tamil face problems in yahoogroups, users
    > > > indicate.) Yahoo, Inc., managers and employees
    > > > need to be sent the UniIndic support request.
    > > >
    > > > N. Ganesan
    > > >
    > > >
    > >
    > >
    >

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