On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 21:46:39 +0200 (CEST) Marcel Schneider <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Correct syntax would be: [...] 0xD835, 0xDCEA, 0xD835, 0xDCD0, [...] > The problem with the commas here is that they don't only separate, > they increment the modification number. The trailing surrogate must > stay together with the leading one on the same shift state. Non-BMP characters must be entered as 'ligatures'. > By contrast, I've the good news to bring in that the test SMP > keyboard layout works on Word 2013. When I press the key with U+1D4EA > and U+1D4D0, the glyphs are directly inserted. So there's one less > problem. Curiously, I think it would work for my cuneiform keyboard with Windows 2002 if I hadn't chosen the only Mesopotamian locale available at the time, Iraqi Arabic. I think I'm suffering from Word being too clever by half - the font and keyboard kept changing when I claimed the text was left-to-right. Perhaps Word 2002 has received better patches. The first time I used it on Windows 7 some Thai was rendered with black boxes. I installed the extensions to handle OpenDocument, and the problems went away. If I change the font back to a Hittite font I have, the text appears as it should. I created the keyboard for doing Babylonian maths, so I don't think a Turkish locale would have been appropriate, despite my using a Hittite font. It would probably work better, though. Richard.
