David, XP requires the registry change as well. http://www.i18nguy.com/surrogates.html
I haven't played with the alt-nnnnn for surrogates so can't help with that. tex "David J. Perry" wrote: > > In Windows 2000 it was necessary to adjust a registry entry to enable > support for surrogates, which were disabled by default. What's the > situation with XP? I looked on the Microsoft developers web site but it > seems to be the same information as I saw when I was dealing with > Win2000 with no updates. (One of the pages references Unicode 2.0 . . > .) > > I did some tests and found that I can get characters outside the BMP in > WordPad under XP and in Word XP by typing the Unicode scalar value > followed by Alt-x; I don't recall ever changing any registry settings, > but has been a while since I upgarded from Win2000 to XP. > > So am I correct in saying that, under XP, 1) no need to change registry > and 2) the Win200 method of typing two surrogates has been replaced by > typing the single scalar value plus Alt-x? > > Thanks - David -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:Tex@;XenCraft.com Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com XenCraft http://www.XenCraft.com Making e-Business Work Around the World -------------------------------------------------------------
