A lot there who wondered and not agree that Win 98/ME supports Unicode and/or You can read-write Unicode by using Win98/ME…But there is a big IF…
IF you have installed IE 6+, you have the ‘Microsoft Layer for Unicode’ or ‘MSCOWS.DLL’ which provides the Unicode functions…You can install it separately but just install IE6, [Optional] install MS Word XP (I forget, if Word XP don’t support win98 then install Word 2000)….
Install one Unicode Font, say Likhan…
Open/Browse any Unicode pages…it’ll displayed perfactly…only you may can’t see some special character i.e. āĻ
ā§āϝāĻž, āϰā§āϝ etc…
Even you can write Bangla using Unicode…but remember there is some potential fact that you must consider…
Note: Only these App let you read-write Unicode properly which developed with the Unicode support for Win98/ME – ‘Microsoft Layer for Unicode’ for Win98/ME [meant, which application utilize ‘mscows.dll’]
Once, long ago, I’ve to use Win98/ME to test my products, and I was able to read Unicode Bangla post at OmicronLab Forum [old post, search, you’ll find my note that ‘I am using Win98’)…
AVRO KEYBOARD don’t support Win98/ME just because the hook dll [third party] dosen’t support Win98/ME…
Microsoft stops supporting the old but great OS and I’m very happy…other than peoples won’t move to Win2000/XP and we (developers) can’t uses advanced features [i.e Unicode]…now we can..we have lot users, we don’t have to panic about win 98/ME anymore…
The hidden truth is I was wating for this moment, when people will leave Win98…when…when…I’ve done some Unicode project long ago, but can’t release…now, I’ll release them…I can forget ‘Win98/ME’…and now I can be real BanglaSavvy đ …just jocking!