12 September 2002.ppt

12 September 2002 Unicode and Windows XP, IUC 22 (San Jose) 12 September 2002 Unicode and Windows XP 22nd International Unicode Conference, San Jose Unicode and Windows XP Cathy Wissink Program Manager Globalization Infrastructure, Design and Development Windows International Microsoft Agenda Brief Overview of Approach and History International Functionality on Windows What’s Different in Windows XP? What’s Beyond Windows XP? Conclusions and Resources Approach and History Just what is “Windows” anyhow? Our Approach  Include full Unicode support from onset Leverage Uniscribe, OpenType, NLS Migrate towards a single worldwide source (reached in Windows 2000) Develop and refine Multilingual User Interface functionality Continue to add new international functionality (Windows Text Services Framework, etc.) Our History (or: Well, how did we get here?) Genesis of NT (1991): Go with Unicode! NT 4.0 (1996): many Unicode components, but still strong code page dependency NT 5.0, renamed Windows 2000 (2000): single worldwide source Windows XP (2001): merge of the NT international functionality with the consumer experience of Windows 95/98/ME International Functionality National Language Support NLS provides the information that supports culturally appropriate behavior: Sorting and casing Formatting (dates, times, currency, numbers) Conversions (normalization, character encodings) Other (calendars, native digits) National Language Support, cont. NLS data for a particular culture grouped into a locale (generally, a country + language combination). There were different types of “locales” on Windows 2000, which have been renamed for Windows XP (as seen in Regional Options)… Locales Windows 2000 “User locale” (cultural conventions and data) “Input locale” (keyboards and IMEs) “System locale” (code page conversions) Windows XP “Standards and Formats” “Input Language and Method” “Language for non-Unicode Programs” Uniscribe The technology used to handle the layout, render