[ros-general] Ideas (by Paulo Correa Silva)

[robert K.]

KJK::Hyperion wrote:
> At 01.47 22/02/2004, you wrote:
> 
>> • Indian keymaps:
> 
> [...]
> 
> from what I've heard, Indian support is going to be a bitch. Unicode 
> support for Indian is badly designed - or so I'm told - and not able to 
> represent all Indian text. Operating systems where file names are binary 
> strings (like most POSIX systems) aren't going to be affected by this. 
> We, being Windows, will receive the equivalent of a full frontal impact 
> with a semi truck. Either we'll make liberal use of the user-defined 
> Unicode range (hoping not to tread over other uses of this range - 
> Microsoft Interix, IIRC, uses characters in this range to represent 
> characters that would be otherwise illegal in file names on Windows, 
> like ":") or we'll be left behind

Explain me more about indian. Which charset is affected?  Hindi, 
Devangali, unknown?
I know there're some scripts in the world which are context sensitive. 
AFAIK they have one code point for each letter variation. So this should 
be 'just' a problem of correct input mehtod editors....

What you tell us is that several code points are missing :-?
AFAIK UCS-2 / BMP (basic multilingual plane) is rather compleete. There 
are however very rare or died out scripts missing like Keilscript.

So what's exactlY?

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