> From: Peter Constable <peter...@microsoft.com> > Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 03:19:44 +0000 > > You can't expect an OS like Windows XP to support Old Italic characters that > weren't even defined in Unicode at the time it shipped.
In all fairness, I think you forget the regular OS updates. I have XP SP3 installed on one of my machines, and it gets updates until this very date (the last one was just a week ago). One of those updates could bring an upgrade of Uniscribe and whatever else is needed to support newly introduced scripts. No one said that these updates are only for fixing "security holes" or other urgent problems. Moreover, the updates are subdivided into "important" and "optional", so the script support could be in "optional" area, if that's important. So I guess it's just a matter of managerial decision somewhere, whether to bring this new support to existing systems or request users to upgrade to the next OS version. I see no technical reasons here.
