From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Sat Nov 29 2003 - 14:12:22 EST
I also sincrely doubt that MSKLC will create keyboards that will work on a
CE device, to tell you the truth. Maybe they do, but they have never been
tested there and I would be surprised if they had no problems (never forget
the First Tester's Axiom!).
MichKa [MS]
NLS Collation/Locale/Keyboard Development
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher John Fynn" <cfynn@gmx.net>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Cc: <mjabbar@bangla.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: Unicode for Windows CE
>
> > Thanks for the link. It is good to know that MSKLC can be used for
creating
> > Keyboard Driver for WinCE. But is it true only truetype fonts can be
used. No
> > OTF?
> > Thanks and refgares
> > Mustafa Jabbar
>
> I doubt that PostScript flavour OpenType fonts can be used since that
would
> require some form of Adobe Type Manager in Windows CE. Simple TrueType
flavour
> OpenType fonts that don't require Uniscribe probably work but for complex
> script layout for scripts such as Bangla / Bengali there would have to be
the
> equivalent of USP10.DLL running in Windows CE - and I've never heard of
> anything like that.
>
> You'd have to try asking on the MS Volt list or someone in Microsoft
> Typography.
>
> Most of what I see listed on the MS web-site is about support for east
asian
> (CJK) scripts in Win CE - nothing so far about any complex Indic or Arabic
> scripts.
>
> Personally I wouldn't expect support for complex scripts like Bengali to
appear
> in Windows CE until some time after all the main complex scripts are fully
> supported in Windows XP. Uniscribe (USP10.DLL) is constantly being
updated
> with support for new scripts and it would seem to make sense to make a
version
> for Win CE only once Uniscribe already has support for more or less all
the
> scripts they plan to support. That is unless there is a huge commercial
demand
> for complex script support in Win CE and it is both practical and
commercially
> worth while for them to implement it.
>
> OpenType fonts for complex scripts on Windows CE would need very good
hinting
> and ClearType to be useable since text is rendered at a small size. There
is
> probably also the issue of getting handwriting recognition for scripts
like
> Bengali to work well since that is the main input method for many CE
devices.
>
> - Chris
>
>
>
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