From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 09:50:15 EST
You are correct, Mark. I could probably intrigue people with tales of
attempts at file systems that change their rules based on locale settings,
but mostly it would just cause nightmares for anyone who understood what a
bad idea that would be. Suffice to day that Windows will not boot if "I" !=
"i" in a case-insensitive comparison. :-)
To answer the original question, support of Unicode in *any* version of
Windows (or indeed any operating system) is between 1.1 and 4.0, depending
on what feature you are looking at. To answer such a question, the specific
feature about which the questioning party is thinking must be given as a
part of said question.
I would not expect Windows (whose most recent shipping version shipped
before Unicode 4.0 was released) to support 4.0 properties and such. But at
the same time, if you have fonts and build a keyboard you can support any
number of 4.0-only scripts.
MichKa [MS]
NLS Collation/Locale/Keyboard Development
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org>
To: "Arcane Jill" <arcanejill@ramonsky.com>
Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 5:57 AM
Subject: Re: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?
> Shouldn't it permit "assa" and "aßa" to co-exist? It isn't like ß is
> canonically equivalent to ss (if I read the file aright, it isn't even
> compatibility equivalent). It's a language-dependent choice to regard
> them as equivalent. I'd guess that should be the responsibility of the
> de_DE localization package or something.
>
> ~mark
>
> On 12/01/03 05:26, Arcane Jill wrote:
>
> > The current Windows OS still stores filenames as strings of
> > sixteen-bit wide words (not codpoints; not characters). It allows
> > filenames "assa" and "aßa" to coexist in the same folder, despite its
> > claim to being case-insensitive, and I have even managed to create
> > filenames containing unmatched surrogate codepoints and noncharacter
> > codepoints.
> >
> > Jill
>
>
>
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