Re: Unicode surrogates in browsers for the compelling demo

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2001 - 12:10:31 EST


From: <Peter_Constable@sil.org>

> >On this page, (all-on-one-line)
> >
> >http://www.i18nwithvb.com/surrogate_ime/code_charts/05.asp?nofont
> >
> >...you can try to duplicate the effect on M.E. in MSIE 5.5
>
> Well, I'm running Win2000, and I have yet to succeed in viewing plane 2
> characters. (Plane 1 seems to work OK.) I've done all that I know to do,
> and it still isn't working for me. Maybe I don't have a font for these
> characters -- I thought I did.
>
> Can people let me know of fonts they are aware of that support plane 2
> characters?

You understand thatr that page and the rest of that site are a translation
of the help file for the IME and font that are shipped with Office XP
CHS/CHT multilanguage packs.

When allelse fails, the IE instrucions on the MS link about "surrogates"
should work (and does here).

MichKa

Michael Kaplan
(principal developer of the MSLU)
Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/
the book -- http://www.i18nWithVB.com/



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