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Frank Snow

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Jun 5, 2001, 11:53:51 AM6/5/01
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Has MS given any information about future support of the additional scripts
in Unicode 3.0, or the additional characters in the supplemetary planes of
Unicode 3.1?

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Michael (michka) Kaplan

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Jun 5, 2001, 1:51:40 PM6/5/01
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They have indicated that they are adding support in Windows XP for several
locales and their scripts as needed: Pubjabi, Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada,
Kyrgyz, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Gailician, Devehi, and Syriac. Although they
are not including a font or an IME for supplementary characters, the CHS/CHP
version of Office XP includes an Extension A/B font and IME.

They are about to release MSLU to help developers write Unicode applications
that will run on all platforms, rather than forcing them to produce
"NT-only" versions or just sticking with ANSI.

Microsoft itself is very actively involved with Unicode.

So their future support story? That they keep moving forward, and that they
do have Unicode in the future.

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MichKa

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http://www.i18nWithVB.com/

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Ted

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Jun 15, 2001, 5:40:09 PM6/15/01
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What's MSLU? - sounds interesting.

Ted.

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Michael (michka) Kaplan

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Jun 15, 2001, 7:22:22 PM6/15/01
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The Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/ME Systems... a.k.a. MSLU.
You can see more info on it at

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/Articles/mslu_announce.asp

It will be out with the next Platform SDK.

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MichKa

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Ted

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Jun 16, 2001, 12:53:02 PM6/16/01
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That's awesome - five years too late though. Better late than never :)

Ted.

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Michael (michka) Kaplan

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Jun 16, 2001, 1:33:09 PM6/16/01
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Well, in one sense I agree. Heck, I would have slipped Win95 and just bittne
the bullet then, or at worst done it for Win98.

But in another sense, Whistler (well, Windows XP is the name now) is the
first version of the NT code base that is actually aimed at getting
non-business customers to migrate off of Win9x, and the best way to move
people is to have developers writing Unicode applications. In the real
world, that can never happen if people have to support Win9x... thus we are
here!

For more info or for questions, etc., you can go to the following newsgroup
(on the msnews.microsoft.com server):

microsoft.public.platformsdk.mslayerforunicode

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MichKa

Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/

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