From: Tex Texin (tex@i18nguy.com)
Date: Mon Nov 11 2002 - 11:10:30 EST
David,
XP requires the registry change as well.
http://www.i18nguy.com/surrogates.html
I haven't played with the alt-nnnnn for surrogates so can't help with
that.
tex
"David J. Perry" wrote:
>
> In Windows 2000 it was necessary to adjust a registry entry to enable
> support for surrogates, which were disabled by default. What's the
> situation with XP? I looked on the Microsoft developers web site but it
> seems to be the same information as I saw when I was dealing with
> Win2000 with no updates. (One of the pages references Unicode 2.0 . .
> .)
>
> I did some tests and found that I can get characters outside the BMP in
> WordPad under XP and in Word XP by typing the Unicode scalar value
> followed by Alt-x; I don't recall ever changing any registry settings,
> but has been a while since I upgarded from Win2000 to XP.
>
> So am I correct in saying that, under XP, 1) no need to change registry
> and 2) the Win200 method of typing two surrogates has been replaced by
> typing the single scalar value plus Alt-x?
>
> Thanks - David
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