Windows 2000 does support surrogates as defined in Unicode 2.0 e.g. it recognizes them when
converting to/from UTF-8 & OpenType recognizes new cmap types for surrogates.
The remaining steps e.g. fonts that display Ext B and sorting methods that integrate surrogate
pairs in culturally correct ways, depend on the final assignments of the new ranges. That isn't
in Unicode 2.0 (or 3.0).
-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Scherer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 12 October, 2000 56"11
To: Unicode List
Subject: Re: lag time in Unicode implementations in OS, etc?
sorry for responding to an old thread - comment below.
markus
Chris Pratley wrote on 2000-oct-03:
> Surrogate support was not turned on by default in Win2000 because the
> Windows team was waiting for the standard to be finalized. It was also added
> late, so to reduce the potential impact they had it off - a safe bet since
> the standard was still 1+ years from completion.
which standard? unicode 2.0 introduced surrogates in 1996. iso 10646-1 got amended with utf-16 in 1996, too.
there was nothing new in the technical issues of how to deal with utf-16 since then.
> Chris
