Michael Good / 2005/08/16 / 02:04 PM wrote: >I don't think the cross-platform character set conversion works for >anything other than the characters in common between MacRoman and the >Windows-1252 character set. The Icelandic characters don't appear in the >MacRoman character set. This is for the US version of Finale; I don't >know how the Japanese version of Finale handles Japanese character set >conversion, for instance.
I could speak for Japanese encoding between Windows and Mac. Since OSX, Unicode is the native encoding just like any flavors of Unix, while Windows still use their property encoding on GUI layer even though NT made process in UTF-8. For example, Japanese version of Windows GUI uses CP932 encoding which is not compatible to the rest of the world (to be fair, it is based on S_JIS but extends to 3 times, just to be Unicode wannabe?). I have no idea why they think their code page is better. They built their code page by buying others such as IBM extension tables so they might think they don't want to forget what they paid? :-) Windows is still the last OS which is not single binary install, meaning it will cost me $2,000 to get Japanese version of XP-Pro and Office because English version with JP locale enabled isn't fully Japanese compatible, and Micro$haft prohibits US reseller to sell non US version. Nasty business. Interesting thing is that Micro$haft went trouble making Mac version this way as well. Despite their advertisement, Office Mac version is not fully Unicode compliant, and by installing English version onto my OSX JP locale, it killed my Unicode library. I had to go buy Japanese version of Office Mac which cost me twice. Anyway, doing total UTF-8 on Windows is possible buy inquiring Arial Unicode Font. This library is humongus, and slows your machine down quite a bit. Sorry but I don't remember where you can obtain this font. Bitstream was one of them but I think their business went down. Anyway, if you get this font and make a file encoded in UTF-8, transferring between Windows and other OSes is possible. I have done it. Now the next question is, does Finale supports UTF-8 under Windows like Mac version does? -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
