Chris Pratley wrote:
>As Peter Constable and a few others will note,
>that doesn?t quite cut it yet for languages not
>covered by Unicode, but there is no way
>Microsoft is about to create a new codepage for
>those languages - we'd much rather wait for
>Unicode to add them.
And since you named me by name, I'll note that I or SIL
wouldn't want MS to create new codepages for those
languages/scripts. We want to see support for them added to
Unicode. We may want to handle them using the PUA in the mean
time, and so would be glad for MS to provide ways for users to
define PUA semantics for their own purposes at the OS level,
(and there are some other I18N infrastructure issues such as
input methods, langdids, localeids and OT support), but none of
that has any connection with creating new 8-bit codepages,
which would mainly serve to perpetuate what has been painful
for all of us.
Peter
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