Re: [unicode] Problems with Windows 7 Unicode Font Rendering

Hi Peter,

I hear Windows 8 is in the pipeline this year...

Will this bug be (or is it already) fixed in Windows 8 ?

V

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Peter Constable <petercon_at_microsoft.com>wrote:

> Of course, Asmus is right. This is a bug in Uniscribe -- thanks for the
> report. It applies only to Indic scripts.
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Asmus Freytag [mailto:asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 5:26 AM
> To: Vinodh Rajan
> Cc: Michael Kaplan; Peter Constable; mpsuzuki_at_hiroshima-u.ac.jp;
> unicode_at_unicode.org
> Subject: Re: [unicode] Problems with Windows 7 Unicode Font Rendering
>
> On 3/4/2010 5:22 PM, Vinodh Rajan wrote:
> >> Please try a font with *no* support and let the OS pick fonts it knows
> of.
> >> Like Arial; Windows will then pick Mangal and Latha on it's own
> >> without running into weirdnesses....
> >>
> >
> > Yeah. In that case everything works fine.
> >
> >
> While it's nice to have support for generic fonts via the OS based on an
> ASCII font, it should be possible to have one's own font for multiple
> scripts. After all, fonts exist not just to make text legible, but also to
> select a concret appearance different from other concrete appearances for
> the same text.
>
> A./
>
>

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