Re: Word 2007 on Vista has ultra-minimal support for surrogate pairs.
Jeff?Relf <Jeff_Relf@Yahoo.COM> wrote:
Speaking of surrogate pairs, You ( Igor ) told me:
" Works just fine in my Excel 2003,
as long as I choose a font that can actually
show those characters, such as this one:
http://www.code2000.net/code2001.htm ".
Q. Have you tried moving the text cursor around,
cutting and pasting a lot of plane-one characters,
mixing in and removing new-lines, selecting it, etc. ?
A. No, you have not.
Yes, I have too. It all works just fine in my copy of Excel 2003 on my
copy of WinXP SP2.
You told me:
" Attached is a small CSV file with just one character U+10001
( represented as a surrogate pair in UTF-16LE ).
It should look like this ( again, with appropriate font selected ):
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/10001/index.htm ".
I couldn't see the " LINEAR B " glyph anywhere,
not on FireFox 2, not on IE7/Vista.
And " No ", I don't have code2001... Who does ?
One who wants to use those characters, obviously. Like native speakers
of languages that require these characters. They like to write emails
and letters, too, you know, and, quite shockingly, not all of them know
English.
By the way, " Musical Symbols " ( Musical.OTF )
has G-Clef and Double Sharp glyphs.
This screenshot ( from my X.EXE program, showing the UTF-16 CharSet )
shows them: " www.Cotse.NET/users/jeffrelf/Musical.PNG ".
I'm not sure what this is supposed to prove. Here's a screenshot of my
Excel 2003 showing G-Clef symbol:
http://home.nyc.rr.com/itandetnik/g-clef.png
Also, doesn't it undermine your point somewhat? First you insist nobody
uses those extended characters anyway, but then you proudly demonstrate
how in your application you went to the trouble of supporting them. So,
are they useful for anything, or aren't they?
--
With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik
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necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to
land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly
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