[Fwd: Re: Benefits/Microsoft Statement]

From: Tex Texin (texin@progress.com)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2001 - 16:04:43 EDT


Suzanne, that's great, thanks.

I'll update the benefits page when I get a minute.
tex

"Suzanne M. Topping" wrote:
 
 I'm not all the way through the latest "Benefits of..." thread, but one
 of the recent notes from Tex which I read requested some sort of
 confirmation from Microsoft about Unicode-only support.
 
 As synchronicity would have it, Dr. International just posted the
 following URL which touches on this issue:
 
 http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/articles/winxpintl.asp
 
 The specific quote which seems to apply is:
 
 "Multilingual computing is made possible by Windows 2000’s native
 Unicode encoding (UTF-16 little-endian) and its complete support for
 Unicode. There is no more ANSI/OEM codepage dependency under Windows
 2000! In fact, support for new scripts (such as the Indic family,
 Armenian, and Georgian) is added through pure Unicode encoding and no
 ANSI or OEM code pages are defined for these scripts. Hence, hundreds
of
 languages are supported out of the box."
 
 Apologies if this reference has already been made...
 
 Suzanne Topping
 Vice President
 BizWonk Inc.
 (Solutions for a Global E-conomy) (TM)
 stopping@bizwonk.com

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