[iyonix-support] Re: FontManager and ROMFonts
- From: Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:38:42 +0200
In message <51eb6e60c1Paul@xxxxxxxx>
Paul Sprangers <Paul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have been told that unicode is not definitely limited to RISC OS 5.
> Everyone with a RISC PC could softload the RISC OS 5 FontManager module and
> the ROMFonts module and enjoy unicode too.
> Now, my question is: which are the lowest version numbers of both modules
> that still support unicode? I need to know this for !KeyMap and !Dict (see:
> www.riscos.sprie.nl), in order to let them run properly on RISC PC's on pre
> or post RISC OS 5 machines.
It is not a good idea to base this decision on the version number
since the Castle/ROOL and the ROL strands of the FontManager have
their independent version numbering schemes in parallel, so there is
no clear cut-off point, and it is possible (even likely) that there
are UCS and non-UCS capable FontManager modules around with identical
version numbers.
For instance:
RISC OS 4.39: FontManager 3.51 - not UCS capable
RISC OS 5.01: FontManager 3.55 - UCS capable
RISC OS 4.42: FontManager 3.58 - not UCS capable
RISC OS 5.16: FontManager 3.66 - UCS capable
RISC OS 6.21: FontManager 3.69 - not UCS capable
You can check by simply using some UCS functionality and checking for
returned errors.
Martin
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