This is one of those really hard to define questions, given how many pieces actually define what gets bundled under the term "Windows." The KB article is not being entirely fair by taking the lowest level that exists and assuming that the entire platform must be designed that way. Given that core Windows fonts and collation tables include charcacters allocated after 2.0, there are clearly pieces of Windows that support later versions.
What is fair to say is that Windows 2000 supports between Unicode 2.0 and 3.1, depending on what are of Windows you refer to. For sortkey.nls -- that file does not ever change in size, as it is not a file that one adds characters to. I suppose if you wanted to look to file sizes to indicate additions you could look to sorttbls.nls, locale.nls, unicode.nls, ctype.nls, and the various font files. But file size without understanding what the file does still seems like a crude way to determine complexity. -- MichKa [MS] NLS Collation/Locale/Keyboard Development Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies ----- Original Message ----- From: "Antoine Leca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 5:35 AM Subject: Version(s) of Unicode supported by various versions of Microsoft Windows > Hi folks, > > I discovered, to much of my surprise (but after reflexion it does hold much > sense, taken in account the dates when it were developped), that Windows > 2000 only support The Unicode Standard, version 2.0 > <URL:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;227483> > > The question, I was unable to find a similar information refering to Windows > NT version 5.1 and 5.2. > > Certainly people here may direct me to the correct place to find it. Thanks > in advance. > > > (Please, do not tell me "it supports 4.0 since you can view 4.0 provided you > use the correct browser and the correct fonts"; that is NOT what I want to > know. I am interested for example in sorting strings with surrogates; seeing > that in a typical WinXP distribution, %SYSTEM32%/SORTKEYS.NLS is still 256k > like it was with NT3.x, shows me that this one would not support Unicode > 3.1, for instance). > > A similar query has been directed to Dr. International > <URL:http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/drintl/askdrintl.aspx> > > > Antoine > > >
