Re: creating a test font w/ CJKV Extension B characters.

From: Frank Yung-Fong Tang (ytang0648@aol.com)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 17:26:09 EST

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    as my last memory, IE even could render the GB18030, still treat multi
    byte characters accorss TCP block poorly. For example, if you have a 4
    bytes GB18030 across a TCP block (4k? 8k?), it will be trashed.

    Andrew C. West wrote:

    > On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:12:52 +0000, jon@hackcraft.net wrote:
    > >
    > > Even with the registery changes that allow Uniscript to work with such
    > > characters?
    >
    > Oops, my mistake. I had forgotten that I had deliberately deleted the
    > registry
    > settings that control how IE deals with surrogate pairs sometime ago
    > in order to
    > prove a point (that IE won't display surrogate pairs without them ?).
    > Anyway,
    > restore the registry to its original state and Frank's page displays
    > OK without
    > any tweaking whatsoever - both NCR and GB18030 encoded CJK-B
    > characters render
    > correctly with my preferred CJK-B font.
    >
    > To install the registry keys necessary for IE to display surrogate
    > pairs simply
    > copy the code below to a file named "something.reg" and double-click
    > on it.
    > Replace "Code2001" with the name of your preferred Supra-BMP font if
    > necessary.
    >
    > <code>
    > Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
    >
    > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
    > NT\CurrentVersion\LanguagePack]
    > "SURROGATE"=dword:00000002
    >
    > [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
    > Explorer\International\Scripts\42]
    > "IEFixedFontName"="Code2001"
    > "IEPropFontName"="Code2001"
    > </code>
    >
    > Andrew
    > 

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