I could see defining "code page support" as meaning that the code
page can be used as the default system code page, to distinguish it
from products that just convert from the code page to the system one
when the data is imported/exported.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: benefits of unicode
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 14:47:01 -0700
From: "Michael \(michka\) Kaplan" <michka@trigeminal.com>
Reply-To: "Michael \(michka\) Kaplan" <michka@trigeminal.com>
Organization: Trigeminal Software, Inc.
To: "Tex Texin" <texin@progress.com>, "John Cowan"
<cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
CC: <unicode@unicode.org>
References: <E14oAsL-0004t7-00@mercury.ccil.org>
From: "John Cowan" <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
> Oh sure. The point is that ISCII does exist, but Microsoft does not
> support it: therefore, if you are going to do Indic languages,
> you must have Unicode (for Microsoft environments, anyway).
Actually, this is not really true... Windows 2000 and XP both have the
ISCII
code pages available. They are just not things you can set as default
system
code pages. But if you are converting data from other sources, these
code
pages can be very useful.
Their implementation is also a bit faster than the one I wrote back in
early
1999 (if that matters to you, it did to me at the time since I was sure
I
had optimized it as much as possible!).
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/
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