It appears that hindi.exe installs Uniscribe - which, AFAIK, is not
permitted by Microsoft - so much for honouring license agreements!
That's another reason why they'd package it as an EXE.
- rick cameron
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob_Hallissy@sil.org [mailto:Bob_Hallissy@sil.org]
Sent: Wednesday, 6 March 2002 12:14
To: Yaap Raaf
Cc: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: Devanagari enthousiasm!
On 06-03-2002 04:29:20 PM Yaap Raaf wrote:
>At 14:02 +0100 2002.03.06, Bob_Hallissy@sil.org wrote:
>
>I am on a Mac and can't open it,
Well, this is going to be a problem for non-Windows clients, I admit.
>it's a
>244K .exe Why an .exe?
I don't know if this is what the BBC was trying to do, but using an
executable installer package is at least one way to make sure people see the
license agreement...
Bob
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