Re: Latin w/ diacritics (was Re: benefits of unicode)

[Peter_Constable]

>Funding makes the world revolve, free time makes it rotate.

I'm glad someone set me straight. I've been told all these years it was
gravity, but I had my doubts... :-)



>If the PUA is used in order to display Latin Unicode on older
>systems, like Win 9x, the source page in true Unicode would need
>to be converted to a new file using the PUA encodings before it
>could be displayed.

Eh? It's not clear to me what you're meaning here, but it sounds incorrect.
Win9x supports drawing text encoded as UTF-16 (but not supplementary plane
characters) or as glyph IDs in addition to an 8-bit Windows codepage
(single or multi-byte).



- Peter


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