On not looking at Uyghur through a Chinese prism
I just remembered that I have a Suggestion Box! In it, Abdusalem asked: Hi Michael, I would like to ask/or suggest as a topic something about the Uyghur (PRC) locale in Windows 7. This is a new locale that has been supported by Windows since Windows Vista as you might know. The current default code page of this locale is set to Arabic (Windows-1256) but this code page cannot fully support the script of Uyghur since it lacks some essential Uyghur-specific characters (ې ,ۈ ,ۇ ,ۆ ,ە). These characters are five out of eight vowel letters in Uyghur, not providing support for these five letters means it does not make any sense for Windows-1256 to be the default code page. Does it have to be the default for the Uyghur (PRC) locale anyway
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On not looking at Uyghur through a Chinese prism
