Well, not generally available keyboard layouts at least. For Canadian
Syllabics we did make a keyboard (input locale) for the Nunavut
government to distribute. Yi and Ethiopic are limited to the new
"U+xxxxxx, Alt-x" input in Word2002 and some system edit controls.
Peter, give me a break - we can't just whip these up and ship them out -
they have a nasty habit of becoming "standards", errors included, which
we all decry. The OS folks continue to move toward a more easily
customizable keyboard layout system...
FWIW, OfficeXP also supports Syriac, Thaana, and Urdu nastaliq shaping
and cascading baselines (with the rights fonts - not sure if the Urdu
and Thaana ones are released yet). On Whistler, you can add several more
Indic scripts, such as Oriya, Bengali, etc. These work in OfficeXP if
you have it (final version or even beta). OfficeXP also has Unicode 3.1
support for "surrogates", display, editing, etc. What's not to like? :)
Chris Pratley
Group Program Manager
Microsoft Word
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 5:43 AM
To: Unicode List
Subject: RE: Unicode market acceptance
On 03/19/2001 03:45:51 AM Edward Cherlin wrote:
>Decent Unicode 3.1 support for considerably more scripts should be
>available in 2002. The ones with shaping issues are Mongolian,
>Syriac, Myanmar, Sinhala, Khmer, and to a lesser extent Ethiopic.
Ethiopic? What complex shaping issues are there for Ethiopic? The only
possible thing I can think of is numbers. Is that what you mean?
By the way, Office XP will be able to handle text in Ethiopic, Yi and
Cdn
Syllabics. Granted, none of these involve complex shaping -- apart from
what I noted above, and MS does not provide input methods for any of
these.
It's worth mentioning nonetheless.
- Peter
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Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
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