It strikes me that some people are reading the announcement as if it is what they want to hear, rather than what it actually says.
It strikes me that some people are wanting to see it as not being good enough because it's not as complete as they want. My view: Input beyond WorldScript? Huzzah!
If this was the great step forward that everyone wants, surely Microsoft would be telling everyone loud and clear.
No company tells all before release.
They are of course saying that their new product is wonderful and what everyone is waiting for (who wouldn't?), but when you read the small print they are promising rather little, certainly not full Unicode support, not even full support for non-complex scripts.
If they are permitting input via the "Unicode Hex Input" and "US Extended", then presumably it will allow input via the "Irish Extended" and "Devanagari-QWERTY" and "Arabic-QWERTY" keyboards. If it doesn't, there is something WRONG. If it does, and there are display issues regarding *rendering* of Devanagari or Arabic, that is a DIFFERENT issue, which Microsoft will address in due course, one expects.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
