- AW: - BlackBox / Unicode on Windows 98

From: H.v.L. <"H.v.L.">
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:38:54 +0200

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Hello BB community,

personally I should like a BB version with unicode support (and, as were
talking of desires, ability to interface to dot net; I know that GPCP runs
on dot net, but it does not run inside BB and of course it does not
support the BB library, so ...).
The fact is that I use BB for teaching in a german school and our
fashionably old computers still run Windows 98 and provided I'm not the
only person in Germany using BB in basic informatics there will probably
be others in a similar situation, i. e. having W98 installed on their
machines.

As someone pointed out some time ago in this discussion group there are
two different sets of character definitions available in Windows, the one
BB 1.5 is actually using and the full unicode set; the question is whether
a BB version supporting both sets is feasable; this of course would be
great.

Regards

Harro von Lavergne

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:49:33 +0200, Zinn, Helmut <Helmut.Zinn{([at]})nowhere.xy
wrote:
>
> Some questions:
>
> 1. How many people are using BlackBox?
> 2. How many people are using BlackBox with Windows 98?

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