[multikulti-tech] Bengali help pages errors

[Chris Croome]

Hi Andrew

Thanks a lot for this -- I assume it is OK with you if the page is
updated using your suggestions?

All the best

Chris 

On Mon 17-May-2004 at 11:21:12PM +0000, andrewc at vicnet.net.au wrote:
> 
> Hi I was just looking at your site, and reading the Bengali help
> pages. There are a number of errors on the page.
> 
> On the Windows platform, Bengali unicode support requires a
> version of Uniscribe that supports the Bengali script, and it
> requires an OpenType font that contains appropriate opentype
> layout tables specifically designed for Bengali.
> 
> The only version of uniscribe that supports Bengali, is the
> version available with Office 2003. Office uses its own version of
> uniscribe, rather than the system version. To use Bengali iin
> other uniscribe aware programs it is necessary to unpdate the
> system version of uniscribe. The first available uniscribe update
> form Microsoft will be in the Windows XP Service Pack 2, allowing
> anyone using WinXPSP2 to correctly render Bengali Unicode,
> assuming they have a Bengali OpenType font.
> 
> Its possible to fudge and get IE and Mozilla Firefox correctly
> displaying Bengali Unicode, but meesing about with system DLLs is
> probably not advisable for the general user of your site.
> 
> The second problem on the page is that you recommend the use of
> the font "Arial Unicode MS" for Bengali. I know of two versions of
> this font, shipped in Microsoft products at different times. The
> more recent version (v1.0) has much more support than the earlier
> version. Neither version contains OpenType layout tables for
> Bengali and neither is suitable for displaying Bengali Unicode. 
> 
> From my knowledge of Microsoft Typographies timeline, full support
> for Bengali can be expected in Longhorn when it is finally
> released.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> Andrew Cunningham
> e-Diversity and Content Infrastructure
> Open Road Language Solutions
> Public Library Unit
> Vicnet
> State Library of Victoria
> Australia

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