I understand your desire to support as many users as possible but
wasn't the last stable release of XP 5 years ago? That is a terrible
burden to take on for a future looking standard being crafted right
now. I think that it would be a mistake to cut features in an effort
to support a platform that is five years out of development.
TJ
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:16 AM, David Webber <
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> From the practical end of the telescope (or one telescope at least), I've
> been trying to find out what support Windows APIs offer for some of the
> OpenType features we've been discussing. It appears this support was
> introduced in Windows 7, (in the form of the "DirectWrite" API) and
> back-fitted (to some extent at least) into Vista, but it is not planned to
> make it available in Windows XP.
>
> That will, as far as I can see, rule out use of these features for
> applications which want to go on supporting XP. Among Windows users there
> are still an awful lot of people using XP, and that situation is not likely
> to change particularly soon.
>
> This, therefore, appears to be another factor militating in favour of having
> necessary symbols at alternative code points.
>
> Dave
>
> David Webber
> Mozart Music Software
>
http://www.mozart.co.uk/>
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