Re: Why win32 ANSI api does not work with Indic Scripts?

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Wed Apr 11 2001 - 18:06:54 EDT


From: "F. Avery Bishop" <averyb@microsoft.com>

> This is *mostly* correct. None of the Indic code pages are supported as
> system code pages (aka ANSI code pages), and the 'A' versions of the
> Win32 API use the system code page to do the automatic conversion as
> mentioned above. Hence the lack of automatic conversion.

Also, Microsoft has been very clear that this is the way all future support
will be done. One side effect of this is that a Unicode app is no longer
just needed for multilingual support -- there are whole markets that you
will not be able to support if your application does not support Unicode!

MichKa

Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/



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