New in Vista Beta 1: giving more strings weight

by Michael S. Kaplan, published on 2005/08/08 02:59 -04:00, original URI: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/08/07/448924.aspx

Back in January I put up that post entitled The jury will give this string no weight.

In that post I mentioned three reasons why a code point might have no weight:

• It may actually not be a valid, encoded Unicode code point, in which case it would be expected to have no weight.
• Or it may be a code point that was not encoded in Unicode until after the operating system shipped a version (in which case it will have no weight since we do not have clairvoyants on staff!).
• Or finally (and this is the one that kind of sucks a bit) it may not have been added to our tables yet.

In Vista, that last two point are addressed in Beta 1 to include every Unicode code point that exists in Unicode 4.1 -- so all of these languages can be given at least some order in a list.

Now as to which ones have proper and linguistically appropriate results for specific locales, that can be the subject of future posts. :-)

This post sponsored by U+0f42 (a.k.a. TIBETAN LETTER GA)

# josh on 9 Aug 2005 1:32 AM:

# Michael S. Kaplan on 9 Aug 2005 1:44 AM:

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