Re: Version(s) of Unicode supported by various versions of Microsoft Windows

From: Frank Yung-Fong Tang (ytang0648@aol.com)
Date: Fri Mar 05 2004 - 12:07:09 EST

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    Not sure how to find the information paper. But one way to check the
    degree of the support is to do a GetStringTypeEx agasinst some
    characters defined in 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0 to see does those
    return result reflect what it should be.

    Antoine Leca wrote on 3/5/2004, 8:35 AM:

    > Hi folks,
    >
    > I discovered, to much of my surprise (but after reflexion it does hold
    > much
    > sense, taken in account the dates when it were developped), that Windows
    > 2000 only support The Unicode Standard, version 2.0
    > <URL:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;227483>
    >
    > The question, I was unable to find a similar information refering to
    > Windows
    > NT version 5.1 and 5.2.
    >
    > Certainly people here may direct me to the correct place to find it.
    > Thanks
    > in advance.
    >
    >
    > (Please, do not tell me "it supports 4.0 since you can view 4.0
    > provided you
    > use the correct browser and the correct fonts"; that is NOT what I
    > want to
    > know. I am interested for example in sorting strings with surrogates;
    > seeing
    > that in a typical WinXP distribution, %SYSTEM32%/SORTKEYS.NLS is still
    > 256k
    > like it was with NT3.x, shows me that this one would not support Unicode
    > 3.1, for instance).
    >
    > A similar query has been directed to Dr. International
    > <URL:http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/drintl/askdrintl.aspx>
    >
    >
    > Antoine
    >
    >



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