In a message dated 8/31/99 3:41:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>As for Unicode... To get Unicode support using MS products, (at least in
>>Japan) you have to use Win-NT. 95 and 98 are not unicode-compliant, so if
>>you want to use Unicode as your character set, you'd have to convert to
>>Shift-JIS (which Win98 speaks), JIS (Mac? Maybe. Unix - E-Mail is
>>basically JIS), or EUC (Unix) at every HotSync... Not a pretty sight.
>
>Win95 & 98 both support Unicode, but to varying degrees. Win98 is pretty
>complete. MacOS uses Shift-JIS.
Well, yea, but...
While Win95 & Win98 both say they support Unicode, and do internally, the
various elements of the user interface don't support Unicode well enough for
applications to make use of the support. Specifically, text objects in the
non-oriental versions of the O/S do not support Unicode.
Mac O/S, on the other hand, does not support Unicode directly, but there are
canned O/S calls that allow you to translate oriental languages to and from
Unicode and the Mac O/S text objects.
Or, to put it more succinctly, Microsoft says they support Unicode, but don't
offer the basic level of support needed for applications. Apple says they
don't, but do support it well enough for applications to make use of Unicode.
Palm O/S doesn't appear to have any underlying support for 2 byte characters.
Mike Westerfield
