December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
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Chapter 10: OSes, Text Editors, and Word Processors
Microsoft Windows Vista
Windows Vista represents the latest and greatest version of Microso’s Windows OS.
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previous version of their OS, called Windows XP, was very popular, and from a multilin-
gual point of view, was quite robust, with strong Unicode support. Windows Vista ups
the ante by providing a fully multilingual OS, without the need to download or install
language- or script-specic components. Everything is included.
e very early versions of Windows were simply windowing environments for MS-DOS,
thus its name. Starting with Windows 95, it was a genuine OS, and did not require that
MS-DOS be running under the hood. Microso developed several localized versions of
Windows 95 and 98, including ve for CJKV locales: Simplied Chinese, Traditional Chi-
nese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. ey did the same for Windows NT, which was
the rst version of Windows that supported Unicode. Prior to Windows NT, only some
components, such as the bundled fonts, supported Unicode. Looking as far back as Win-
dows 95J and 98J, their bundled Japanese fonts had absolutely no trace of Shi-JIS encod-
ing in their ‘cmap’ tables. ey had only Unicode encoding in them. So, how did Shi-JIS–
based applications work with such Unicode-encoded fonts? Windows converted between
legacy encodings, such as Shi-JIS, and Unicode on-the-y whenever ...
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