I also sincrely doubt that MSKLC will create keyboards that will work on a CE device, to tell you the truth. Maybe they do, but they have never been tested there and I would be surprised if they had no problems (never forget the First Tester's Axiom!).
MichKa [MS] NLS Collation/Locale/Keyboard Development Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher John Fynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 10:35 AM Subject: Re: Unicode for Windows CE > > > Thanks for the link. It is good to know that MSKLC can be used for creating > > Keyboard Driver for WinCE. But is it true only truetype fonts can be used. No > > OTF? > > Thanks and refgares > > Mustafa Jabbar > > I doubt that PostScript flavour OpenType fonts can be used since that would > require some form of Adobe Type Manager in Windows CE. Simple TrueType flavour > OpenType fonts that don't require Uniscribe probably work but for complex > script layout for scripts such as Bangla / Bengali there would have to be the > equivalent of USP10.DLL running in Windows CE - and I've never heard of > anything like that. > > You'd have to try asking on the MS Volt list or someone in Microsoft > Typography. > > Most of what I see listed on the MS web-site is about support for east asian > (CJK) scripts in Win CE - nothing so far about any complex Indic or Arabic > scripts. > > Personally I wouldn't expect support for complex scripts like Bengali to appear > in Windows CE until some time after all the main complex scripts are fully > supported in Windows XP. Uniscribe (USP10.DLL) is constantly being updated > with support for new scripts and it would seem to make sense to make a version > for Win CE only once Uniscribe already has support for more or less all the > scripts they plan to support. That is unless there is a huge commercial demand > for complex script support in Win CE and it is both practical and commercially > worth while for them to implement it. > > OpenType fonts for complex scripts on Windows CE would need very good hinting > and ClearType to be useable since text is rendered at a small size. There is > probably also the issue of getting handwriting recognition for scripts like > Bengali to work well since that is the main input method for many CE devices. > > - Chris > > >
