Gitex Cairo 1999

Gitex Cairo was held on the 2-5 April, 1999 at the Cairo International Conference Center in Egypt. The following presentations were given by a member of Microsoft's BED International team:

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	Complex Scripts and Multilingual Text in Internet Explorer 5.0
	Supporting Complex Scripts in your Windows 2000 Application

Complex Scripts and Multilingual Text in Internet Explorer 5.0

This presentation covers topics such as: multilingual text support in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0; recommended character encodings for multilingual web pages; supporting bi-directional text in DHTML; and accessing SQL Server 7.0 Unicode data through ASP web pages.

Complex Scripts and Multilingual Text in Internet Explorer 5.0
(85KB PowerPoint presentation)
F. Avery Bishop, Microsoft Corp.

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Supporting Complex Scripts in your Windows 2000 Application

This very detailed presentation provides in depth material concerning: character encodings and Unicode support in Windows 2000; writing cross-platform Unicode apps; using the Uniscribe APIs to achieve advanced text layout of complex scripts; implementing RTL (right-to-left) layout (mirroring); and guidelines for writing Multi-language User Interfaces.

Supporting Complex Scripts in your Windows 2000 Application
(244KB PowerPoint presentation)
F. Avery Bishop, Microsoft Corp.