Re: Pupil's question about Burmese

From: James Lin (James_Lin@symantec.com)
Date: Tue Nov 09 2010 - 12:24:08 CST

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    >> So, for instance, every copy of Windows 2000 or later versions is capable of
    displaying Hindi or Armenian text, regardless of the system locale setting;
    >>every copy of Windows Vista or later is capable of displaying, in addition,
    text in scripts such as Khmer and Ethiopic; and every copy of Windows 7 is,
    >>additionally, able to display text in scripts Tifinagh and Tai Le. In all
    these cases, the system locale setting has no bearing.

    Yes, displaying is fine, but the original question is copying and pasting;
    without the correct locale settings, you can¹t copy/paste without corrupting
    the byte sizes. Copy/paste is generally handle by OS itself, not
    application. Even if you have unicode support application, you can display,
    but you can¹t handle none-ASCII characters.
    >

    On 11/8/10 6:22 PM, "Peter Constable" <petercon@microsoft.com> wrote:

    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf
    > Of Andrew Cunningham
    >
    >>> >> Your system locale has to handle the Burmese language.  So you need to
    >>> >> either install Windows 7 in Burmese or change under Regional /
    >>> >> Language options in Control panel, under Adv tab.
    >
    >> > well considering Burmese is a language that is not supported by Microsoft
    >> ... the above is relatively irrelevant.
    >
    > At whatever point Burmese _is_ supported in Windows, system locale will not be
    > relevant. To be clear, the legacy Windows notion of system locale is relevant
    > only in relation to apps that support only legacy Windows encodings, not
    > Unicode. There is no system locale support for languages such as Hindi or
    > Armenian or Khmer, but that does not prevent display of text in those scripts
    > in Unicode-capable applications. So, for instance, every copy of Windows 2000
    > or later versions is capable of displaying Hindi or Armenian text, regardless
    > of the system locale setting; every copy of Windows Vista or later is capable
    > of displaying, in addition, text in scripts such as Khmer and Ethiopic; and
    > every copy of Windows 7 is, additionally, able to display text in scripts
    > Tifinagh and Tai Le. In all these cases, the system locale setting has no
    > bearing.
    >
    >
    >
    > Peter
    >
    >
    >

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