On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 04:46:23AM +0000, Peter Constable wrote: > Your Tai Tham situation is, of course, exceptional. For a lot of users, though, if they would only update their XP machines to even Windows 7, if not Windows 8.1, they'd find a lot of characters they've been missing are well supported. Someone I know just discovered that Windows 8 supports Old Italic, and has decided to upgrade.
I think that that example of yours supports my point of view 100%. Why would one NEED to upgrade the OS to use Old Italic? (And I should not mention how painful [I'm self-censoring] the upgrade to Win8 is for everybody…) It is the case of simple rendering. Given a font, and a keyboard layout (both doable in user-land), it should “just work”. Or I am missing something? Or maybe you mean that if one has applications installed with Old Italic characters in the name, then Tap-WinKey-Then-Type-the-Name-of-Application will be able to find it even if one types “normal” Latin characters? ======================================================= This brings in another question: are folding-for-search rules user-configurable on “your” OS(es)? Thanks, Ilya
