Microsoft does not say this will work and do not expect it to work. You have to have an OS that suppprts this sort of thing. :-)
MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. http://www.trigeminal.com/u ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Kass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tex Texin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Unicoders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 7:48 PM Subject: Re: Unicode surrogates in browsers for the compelling demo > > Michael Kaplan wrote, > > > When I did have this working, I had the config as shown at the following > > site; further respondent sayeth naught: > > > > http://www.i18nwithvb.com/surrogate_ime/code_charts/ > > > > I was at that time running Win2000 SP2, IE 5.5, and a version of WEFT. > > > > For what it's worth, this page (all on one line): > http://www.i18nwithvb.com/surrogate_ime/code_charts/05.asp?nofont > > ...has kind of a bizarre result in the MSIE 5.5 on Windows > Millennium Edition. > > It doesn't display the Plane Two glyph *unless* it is being > "selected" (as in for copy/paste operation). While it is being > selected, the display for that single character flickers between > the actual character and the dual null box characters. > > Depending upon when the mouse is released, the resulting > display will either be the Plane Two character or two null boxes > highlighted for selection. Can't make a screen shot of this > because as soon as the screen capturing software is fired up, > the highlighting disappears, and the display is back to two null > boxes. This seems to work for only one character at a time. > > But, the amazing thing is that a non-BMP character displays in > the browser on Win M.E. at all, even if briefly. > > (I fixed up the Win M.E. registry with the Scripts 42 setting and > entered appropriate font names as string values just like the > instructions for W2K.) > > This only happens with Plane Two, not Plane One. When tested with > registry set to Code2001 on Etruscan, it looked like the browser was > trying to use a fixed width font, just like it looked under W2K. Could > it be that the browser only tries to use a fixed width font for non-BMP > material? (The Plane Two font *is* fixed width, Code2001 isn't.) > > In MSIE 5.5 on Win M.E., the null boxes aren't from Code2001, even > with the registry set to Code2001 for scripts 42, and the Latin font > set to Code2001 in the browser, and even a font-face tag used in the > HTML simultaneously. > > Based on a letter from Lars Marius Garshol in which the Opera 6.0 > beta is mentioned as supporting non-BMP ranges, downloaded the > free version for Windows M.E., but haven't been able to display > any Plane One or Plane Two characters yet. Do note, however, that > the Opera browser offers sophisticated display and font controls, > and possibly I just haven't figured out the right combination. Or, > it could be that only Opera for W2K-and-up supports non-BMP > ranges. > > The charts made for Plane Two (links above) are encoded as UTF-8 > shortest form, right? In other words, we shouldn't be trying NCRs > for surrogate pairs or anything equally special? > > Best regards, > > James Kass. > > > >
