RE: [OT] multilingual support in MS products (was Re: Kurdish ghayn)

Yes, please do report it, with exact steps to repro. No point in testing
the beta if you don't let us know about problems! And also let me know
details on this and any issues in the future directly (privately, so we
don't bore everyone here) to make sure someone who understands the bug
report sees it :-)

If other people here could try this and send me feedback too that would
be great. Combining diacritic use is so low for various reasons that we
do not get any feedback on it from normal channels. (if you don't have
it, beta is at: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.asp)

Bob, you might also check to see if Tools/Options/Complex Scripts/Use
sequence checking makes a difference. Also I would make sure you try
with a complex script language enabled just in case that has an effect.

I can't repro the problem by the way. I type "g" followed by 0323, then
Alt-x. The dot appears, but with most fonts since they do not have the
OT tables  the dot appears nearly or entirely on top of the descender of
the "g" so it may appear invisible.

Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob_Hallissy@xxxxxxx [mailto:Bob_Hallissy@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 7:51 AM
To: Chris Pratley
Cc: unicore@xxxxxxxxxxx; unicore-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [OT] multilingual support in MS products (was Re: Kurdish
ghayn)


On 24/04/2003 08:30:20 "Chris Pratley" wrote:

>BTW, is anyone on this list  trying out the beta of Office2003 for
Windows? If
>so, have you experimented with  the new support for combining
diacritics
in
>Word?

Yes and yes. For example:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/sites/nrsi/media/U0323_Example.png

Word is not without its problems in this regard. In particular, it can
be
quite tricky to get Word to correctly render the combining marks.
Further,
as a result of this email I have just confirmed that while Word can be
convinced to display U+0323 below "g", as I've shown above, such a
combination cannot be entered from a keyboard. I just set up a Keyman
keyboard to enter U+0323. It works fine in Notepad, but Word 11 beta 2
silently ignores the keystroke unless it is after a, e, i, o, u, or y.
Yes
I'll submit it...

Bob