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ArticlesSystem Support for Unicode

March 1997 / Features / Unicode Evolves / System Support for Unicode

Apple Macintosh:

Microsoft Windows 3.x:

  • None, but can convert data to/from Unicode through Win32s.

Windows 95:

  • API converts data to/from Unicode.
  • TrueType glyph indices use Unicode.
  • Display-side APIs are available in Unicode.

Windows NT:

  • Operating system internally assumes Unicode, automatically converts from individual charsets if necessary.
  • All text I/O APIs can be set to Unicode .
  • TrueType glyph indices use Unicode.
  • NT 4.0 added UTF-8 data conversion.

Unix:

  • Comprehensive support in Plan 9 from AT&T, but majority of Unix variants have little or no direct Unicode support.

Java:

  • Java is the first programming language to define Unicode as its default data type. However, as a programming language, it has no display rendering or other mechanisms that are the responsibility of the host system.
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