[I18n-sig] P1.6a1- Win98 - unicode issues

[Christian Wittern]

> > Apparently my efforts to send unicode via Juno failed.
> > d.edmunds
> > > ???????? ????? ??????? ? ??????????? ???????? ??????????????. ???
> > > ?????
> > > ??? ?????? ??????? ?? ????? ????? ?????? ?? ????????????? ??????? ?
> > > ??????.
> > >
> I think this is a Windows feature at the moment.  Office 2000
> apps, IE5 and
> Outlook Express allow input and display in any language if you have the
> right OS add-ons loaded.  But at the moment when you past to the clipboard
> or save to a file, they get turned to question marks, presumably to avod
> upsetting older apps that are not so Unicode aware.  I am told Win2000 is
> better - need to try it.
>

As far as I know, the WIndows clipboard offers the text in different
formats, the ??? is just the text-only fallback in cases the application
does not know the magic to read the Unicode portion of the clipboard. I
don't know either, but I know it is possible...

All the best, Christian Wittern