RE: Excitement! FM7?

[Lee Richardson <lhr@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 8:57 AM -0400 4/9/02, larry.kollar@arrisi.com wrote:

>Nope -- it's still Classic only. Lee warned us that
>they couldn't get it ported to Carbon, but I was
>hoping he'd pull a miracle out of his back pocket.

Wish I could have. Dev staff is starting to look at what it would take to finish a carbonized version (it's maybe half done in FM7), to see if there's a way to get it out sooner than the usual 18-24 month cycle of a major release.

At 3:32 AM -0700 4/9/02, Dan Emory wrote:

>Thus, it is clear that FM7's "internal character set" is the same as it was in FM6, probably including the 6 locked code points that make it impossible, with ordinary fonts, to use FM7 for Eastern and Central European languages, as well as for Cyrillic languages. The only workaround is to use country-specific fonts which, according to Dmitri and others, get around the locked code point impasse.

This is correct- FM7 will round-trip XML containing any code point in the Unicode 3.0 spec, but will only display characters already existing in its current internal character set, plus CJK. Unknown characters are embedded in markers. FM7 includes an implementation of the Apache ICU library, with configurable encoding translation tables, used for XML translation and a bit of PDF export. ICU is a great technology base to build on, as Unicode support is moved into the core product.

...Lee


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