I stand happily corrected.
Peter
From: <chrispr@MICROSOFT.com> AT Internet on 01/20/2000 10:00
AM
Received on: 01/20/2000
Peter mentions that Word uses language information only for
selecting proofing tools, but that is not all. Word uses
language for many things:
Determining date format
Determining sort order
Controlling line breaking, word breaking (for scripts that need
it)
Determining many default properties
Etc.
Once the necessary infrastructure (fonts, UniScribe support) is
available in at least a prototype testable form, and if I am
still running things :), you'll probably see Word start
displaying language-appropriate glyphs from fonts if they
exist. From the application perspective all we need is to be
able to add a language parameter to our text rendering, and the
OS should take care of it (UniScribe is part of Windows). These
things take time. I suspect that given the standard priorities,
the languages that we see this first will be CJK. Once the
infrastructure is there, third parties could create fonts with
the necessary glyph tables for languages we didn't do
initially.
Chris Pratley
Group Program Manager
Microsoft Word
>(Text in word Word at least has a language attribute so
presumably that application "knows" the language
system.)
Currently, Word only uses this for selecting proofing
tools.
>I've been trying to build OT fonts based on the
assumption that applications will use the LangSys table.
Am I wasting my time?
No, I pray not! I doubt you're alone on this.
Peter
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