Kenneth Whistler wrote: > > Oh God... Surrogates were standardized long before they started > > being used in Unicode 3.2 for new codepoint assignments out of > > the BMP... > > Actually, the first supplementary graphic characters were assigned for > Unicode 3.1. Unicode 3.2 added only BMP characters.
You're right, I thought it was in 3.2 (but I had not really used Unicode 3.1, and jumped directly from 3.0). > > It was clear that > > many new characters would become necessary in Unicode 3.0.0 > > even if only Unicode 2.1.9 was published at that time. > > And Philippe is correct that the mechanism for surrogates (and > UTF-16) was published long ago. Actually, it was in Unicode 2.0 > (July, 1996). And the ISO/IEC 10646-1 amendment upon which > UTF-16 was based was also approved and published in 1996. That far? So why isn't there correct support of UTF-16 on Windows 95OSR2, 98, 98SE and ME (notably for their FAT32 filesystem)? I can understand it for Windows 95 and 95OSR1 as they were designed before, and may be also for the 95OSR2 version despite it was published in late 1997, one year after UTF-16 was published. > > So Windows 2000 should have had a full support of surrogates > > immediately > > Except then it probably would have been known as Windows 2003 > instead of Windows 2000. :-) Still I cannot conceive that effectively Windows 2000 disables its support for UTF-16 and keeps on using UCS-2 only. This is still the case in Windows XP, and Media Center, and I wonder if this is still missing in the new Windows 2003 Server or in the next coming Windows 2003 workstations. How can Microsoft claim they support GB18030 in China in Windows XP, Media Center, or Windows 2003 then? Is this support restricted to only some APIs directly related to text presentation and handling for the GUI (like in GDI+ and UniScribe) but not enforced in more system APIs like the NTFS filesystem? __________________________________________________________________ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set aside Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com
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