Re: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?

From: Patrick Andries (Patrick.Andries@xcential.com)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 22:53:30 EST

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    De: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <michka@trigeminal.com>

    > 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 might have not been clear here, I'm sorry if this is the case.

    I'm interested in knowing whether the following features would soon be found
    in Windows : fonts for scripts covered by Unicode 4.0, corresponding
    rendering engine to display all Unicode 4.0 scripts — I suspect this should
    be ok(*)— and updated character table insertion features in Office and OS
    to key in any character in Unicode 4.0.

    P. A.

    (*) Well, does the latest or next version of the Office/OS tools support
    (render) the OpenType ligature features for latin scripts, which seems to me
    most useful to implement Unicode properly and simply? I was under the
    impression — maybe mistaken — the OpenType ligature feature was currently
    not supported by Office tools for the latin scripts.



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