From: Richard Wordingham (richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2006 - 14:01:04 CST
Andrew West wrote:
>> Please read my explanation carefully. Unscribe plays a role in the
>> symptoms displayed by Charmap, to be sure. Charmap could have been
>> written to avoid Uniscribe's font fallback, and arguably should have
>> been, which is why I referred to it as a Charmap issue.
> OK, so the fact that exactly the same behaviour (i.e. with Arial
> Unicode MS selected only Oriya digits are displayed) is seen in
> Notepad with Uniscribe version 1.409.2600.1106 and later (but not with
> Uniscribe version 1.405.2416.1 or earlier) is a bug in Notepad ?!
I think the presumption is that Notepad is intended to display words
(possibly even sentences). On this basis, I think Peter is implying that
the error is in the *user* for choosing a font without OTL for a script that
needs OTL.
Richard.
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