Re: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?

From: John Cowan (cowan@mercury.ccil.org)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 09:18:43 EST

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    Peter Kirk scripsit:

    > Surely it
    > would help with internationalisation for Thailand if the system is
    > designed with support for Thai and other scripts in mind, even if not
    > fully implemented and quality assured in the first release.

    Surely it would. But given the high costs of supporting Thai properly
    (it requires keeping a Thai dictionary around just to do line breaking),
    it's not an unreasonable business decision to say that the Thai-language
    market is simply not worth supporting for some applications.

    And before you say "put it in the OS", not all computing platforms are
    bloat-tolerant desktops. 

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