WPF 3.5 to support the languages of ~1 billion more people

Published 19 September 07 05:39 PM | text

We're quite excited about our upcoming WPF 3.5 release which will now support seven Indic scripts!!

For those of you curious about what languages this implies, here's a mapping between scripts, languages, and fonts:

For other new upcoming features, check out Tim Sneath's blog.

Note: Indic script support is not available in the current public Beta, it will be available in the final release.

-Chris Han

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# someone said on October 21, 2007 5:01 AM:: Clearly, MS would agree that the best solution to fully utilize the WPF text engine's capabilities can only be a word processor or page layout app. Why doesn't MS themselves create a basic free version of a word processor which offers rich typography but isn't as powerful as Word?

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