RE: OS 99

From: Smita Desai (sdesai@inconcert.com)
Date: Tue Nov 10 1998 - 10:41:43 EST


What are the criteria for making "Unicode compliant"? Is it the ability
to convert to and from or actual support in all functions?
In the list below, I see a lot of instances where the latter would not
work, e.g. Windows 9x, Solaris 2.6 etc.. Win 9x does not have Unicode
support for "all" APIs and Solaris 2.6 has no support except for to/from
conversion, at least as far as I know.

Just curious,
Smita

                -----Original Message-----
                From: Julia Oesterle (Unicode)
[mailto:v-juliao@microsoft.com]
                Sent: Monday, November 09, 1998 9:54 PM
                To: Unicode List
                Subject: FW: OS 99

                Hi -- update help requested:

> A year ago, the question of which OSs were Unicode
compliant was answered
> and
> we constructed the following chart:
>
> \OS Version UI API
> Sun Solaris 2.6 yes yes
> IBM AIX 4.1x yes no
> IBM OS/2 4.1 no yes
> IBM OS/400 3.7 no yes
> SGI IRIX* 6.4 no no
> Next Open Step yes yes
> Apple Rhapsody yes yes
> NetWare 4.x no yes
> Windows NT 4.x yes yes
> Windows 95 no yes
> Windows 98 no yes
> Linux no response
> *(IRIX supports conversions between UCS4, UCS2, UTF8 &
other character
> sets)
>
> Has this changed?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Julia Oesterle



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