Ah. What you are asking about is UNICODE support. That's something we're not
I mean "support" with the possibility to use all of their characters, for instance the ligatures for ct and st for the OT fonts that have them. Is this possible?
Actually on win32 you can support ligatures without doing unicode. You have to use the new uniscribe libraries to do the text rendering, and as I understand it they will automatically use any ligatures that are available. I don't know how OSX handles it, but I think there's a similar feature... that way the application doesn't have to query the fonts to obtain the
correct ligatures, it's handled by the output library.
Thanks for this x86 info Benjamin,
On OS X, the recommend choice is to use the native Unicode string containers for everything and display with controls/views that are specialized for Unicode. It's easiest to do this in Cocoa but is also available in Carbon when the preferred API sets are used. I've put in a request for Unicode handling and hope others will do the same. The industry won't be backing off on this direction and the sooner Finale offers true Unicode support the better.
Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca
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