On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 21:38, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
I've asked a question regarding unicode support and sorting on microsoft.public.win32.programmer.international (26-28 Jun 2003) and have the following answers (UCA == Unicode Collation Algorithm):
Based on the lines on inquiry this opened up, the tables would almost certainly be within Feist in the US (and similarly probably OK to copy in Canada), but would definitely be within "industrious collection" copyright protection in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
Of course if we can identify a unicode.org version that's much closer to the Microsoft tables so that only minor adjustments are necessary, the industrious collection copyright can be bypassed.
If that proves not to be possible, then the only choice legally is likely to be to use the closest version (or amalgam) of the unicode.org tables, but provide a facility to allow people in the US to substitute a Windows version of the *.nls files (found, for example in c:\winnt\system32 - sortkey.nls, for instance, is simply 65536 entries of four bytes in length with the expected format).