Re: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?

From: Patrick Andries (Patrick.Andries@xcential.com)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 21:35:08 EST

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    De: "Christopher John Fynn" <cfynn@gmx.net>

    > It's plain silly to expect support for every Unicode character to be
    present on
    > every platform and in every application "right out of the box" soon after
    > characters are officially encoded in the Unicode Standard, especially
    > characters for scripts have complex rendering requirements.

    How about after a few years?

    > Fonts for some
    > scripts can take a long time to make properly,

    Well, some fonts would be better than none (and they have to be made so that
    the Unicode standard be printed).

    > and then they have to be tested.
    > Layout engines may need updating and these have to be thoroughly tested
    too.
    > Then applications need to be updated to handle proper line breaking, word
    > selection and so on.
    >
    > Things like math formulas may and music notation have their own special
    layout
    > requirements -

    This - I believe - is not expected from any application purporting to
    support Unicode.

    P. A.



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