Re: Problems with viewing Hindi Unicode Page

From: Andrew Cunningham (andjc@ozemail.com.au)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 06:10:29 EST


According to Microosft's DLL Help database the following versions of
uniscribe are available in the following products.

Version 1.407.2600.0 : Windows XP
Version 1.405.2416.1 : Visio 2002
Version 1.400.2411.1 : Internet Explorer 6
Version 1.325.2195.2104 : Windows 2000 SP2
Version 1.325.2195.1340 : Windows 2000 SP1
Version 1.325.2180.1 : a range of products inlcuding Internet Explorer 5.5,
Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2, Office 2000 SR1, Office XP
Professional, Windows 2000, Windows Millenium Edition

as pointed out in other posts two things are required:

1) a opentype font designed for Hindi ( or in the case of web pages , an
embeded opentype font).

and

2) an appropraite version of uniscribe installed.

in theory IE 5.5 has the appropriate version of uniscribe installed on
windows 98 SE

although from observation installing IE 5.5 or IE 5.5 SP2 does not
automatically update uniscribe.

deleteing the language packs that require uniscribe support, and then
reinstalling them does update uniscribe. Not sure why it requires this
convoluted installation process, but it seems to work that way.

Andrew

andrewc@vicnet.net.au
andjc@ozemail.com.au

----- Original Message -----
From: James Kass <jameskass@worldnet.att.net>
To: Dinesh Agarwal <dineshagarwal2000@hotmail.com>; John Cowan
<cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>; <alan.wood@context.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: Problems with viewing Hindi Unicode Page

> John Cowan wrote,
>
> >
> > I think the problem is with Win98, which doesn't have the necessarily
> > libraries to do "complex script rendering" such as Indic scripts
> > require.
> >
>
> In order to view Hindi Unicode pages in the browser on Win 9x,
> all that would be needed is an up-to-date Uniscribe ("USP10.DLL")
> which has a file size of between 300 to 400 kb. and an OpenType
> Unicode font covering the script.
>
> It seems that Peter Constable has asked this before on this list,
> but, is there any plan to distribute the newer Uniscribe with
> the Internet Explorer or ...?
>
> Best regards,
>
> James Kass.
>
>
>



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