Michael Jansson wrote,
> ... People may as easily fail to > update a Win9x system with Uniscribe and a 23KB font as they would with a > 23MB font. True. > The amount of support needed to sort out these users would still > be the same. > Also true. One FAQ page with brief instructions ought to do it. > I'm not arguing that you can not update one Win9x machine to show Tamil > correctly. I'm arguing that you should not advice companies to tell a > million web users to do that on a broad basis. You need test coverage, > support, etc before doing that. > Uniscribe is a windows application and Microsoft tests it. Both Microsoft and Apple provide tools to font developers which validate fonts. TTF/OTF fonts have a rigid structure, if a font passes either Microsoft's or Apple's font validators yet a system crashes, it's the system that's got the problem. > > Let's summarize what I have said: OK. > 1 - My original posting on this thread clearly states that you need to be > careful when trying to use Uniscribe on Win9x, because it is not officially > supported there. I think versions of USP10.DLL ("Uniscribe") exist on just about every Win9x platform. Since only Unicode-aware software uses Uniscribe, I can't see how installing a newer version would not be officially supported. > There would be an official "Update your Win9x with > Uniscribe" service pack if it would be possible. Maybe there will be > someday, though I doubt it. There should be, but I doubt if there will be, too. Not because it's a bad idea, but because Microsoft doesn't really need to support Win 9x anymore, it's a dead-end platform. Please refer to Andrew Cunningham's letter to this list from last January for more info about Uniscribe and how to update it: ( ... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 3:10 AM Subject: Re: Problems with viewing Hindi Unicode Page ...) > 2 - I have exemplified why including download and installation instructions > for upgrading a Win9x machine with Uniscribe is a bad idea. Am I wrong? I think you are wrong about this. I don't think you've proven that updating Uniscribe is a bad thing, you've only proven that certain fonts are a bad thing on some platforms. > Am I > badmouthing anyone? > Perhaps. Is it badmouthing someone to call them unethical for offering users instructions on how they can compute in their own language on their older systems? Best regards, James Kass.