Unicode and Windows Vista (repost)

[Richmond Mathewson]

  On 03/05/2010 19:51, Devin Asay wrote:
> On May 3, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much.  The problem was spotted with Vista; I have had no
>> feedback from a Win 7 user.
> Sorry. My mistake. Of course I knew you said Vista, but we're on the brink of a pending changeover to Win 7 in our Windows labs and I'm afraid I have 7 on the brain. :-p
>
> But that doesn't change the issue, does it? There may have been some change in the way both the Mac and Windows OS handle Unicode, which has rippled back into Rev's engine.
>
> Do you know if any other of your Devawriter users are on SnoLeo, Vista or Win 7. If so, are they seeing the same issues?
>
> Devin
>
>
I do know that various versions of Devawriter have been downloaded at 
least 7000 times; how many of those
are repeats I have no way of knowing; but considering at one time I was 
popping out upgrades every 2 days
probably quite a few. I am absolutely sure the vast majority of those 
downloads were by people who were
curious to see a 'funny' Indian writing system rather than having an 
interest in Sanskrit as such (let's face
it, it is not everybody's cup of tea).

Feedback has been thin; a few nice notes from Profs of Sanskrit who, 
while being experts at Sanskrit are
probably not well-versed in computers.

The chap using Vista is the first corresponding critic I have had, and 
he has proven most informative and
helpful (especially as he is encoding a fairly large collection of his 
grandfather's Sanskrit poems, so knows
what he is doing with the language as well as feeling reasonably 
comfortable with a PC).

Initially there was some odd feedback on versiontracker:

"I tried converting the Font from PC to Mac TTF but does not work for me!
OS: Snow Leopard 10.6.2  "

"Yes, I had the same issue. I downloaded the font and Devawriter would 
not recognize it. I assume it's because of Snow Leopards new font 
requirements. So, I converted the font from windows ttf to mac ttf and 
now it works."

they are both from Snow Leopard users; whether they got as far as the 
Vista chap I don't know: I offered
off-line correspondence to these 2 and have had nothing back.