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Re: CHAT: The EU expands (was Re: THEORY/CHAT: Talmy, Jackendoff and Matchboxes)

From:Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>
Date:Monday, May 3, 2004, 2:55
From: "Henrik Theiling" <theiling@...>

> "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> writes:
> > Except that modern Windows versions use Unicode at the core > > Ahem. You mean UCS-2 (the BMP), right? As far as I know the C type > wchar_t is still only 16 bits wide under Windos.
I was talking about Web browsers and HTML encodings; Internet Explorer does allow viewing in UTF-7 and UTF-8, but not UTF-16 yet. Same goes for Outlook Express at least. And not even XP works with Unicode beyond the BMP either. 'Ts a shame, because I'm looking forward to being able to use the Musical Symbols area in Plane 1.