--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "i18n@..." <i18n@...> wrote:

> Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> I don't have time to dig up the info myself right now, but perhaps
> someone here can explain why there are issues with Unicode-based
> Inuktitut currently with the latest XP? Is it that Uniscribe doesn't
> support the rendering? Search/sort algorithms fail? Something else?

From the description, it sounds as though the main point is to
translate the system menus and help - quite a task in itself.

There are a few niggles because the script isn't explicitly supported
- I can't select the Canadian syllabics subrange in the 'character
map' for instance - I have to go through the entire character set
display for a font. It renders fine (though my Uniscribe is later
than the one that came with XP), though. I can use it to clean up
text in Notepad, and the HTML files open up fine in Word 2002 (Thai
edition). ('Insert symbol' works fine, and you can jump to the
Canadfian syllabics range - if you know what the Thai looks like!)
I've no idea whether you can train the spell checker - I'd imagine
you'd need a bespoke one in a holophrastic language, though.

Uniscribe oughtn't to be an issue at all - Canadian syllabics are a
lot simpler than the 'Latin alphabet'; almost ASCII-like in simplicity!

Richard.