Release 4.6 of the Notes Client includes support for Unicode Fonts.
To enable this feature the following NOTES.INI variable needs to be set to 1
i.e. the following line in the Notes.ini file will enable this feature:
UNICODE_DISPLAY=1
Abscence of this line, or a setting of UNICODE_DISPLAY = 0, will disable this feature. If the feature is disabled, then the Notes Client will display text by always translating from LMBCS to the platform character set exactly as in earlier releases.
If the feature is enabled, then Notes will interrogate the currently selected font to see if it supports the Unicode range based on the user's locale. If it does, then Notes will translate from LMBCS to UNICODE for displaying text. If not, then LMBCS is translated to the platform character set, just as in earlier versions.
The default setting for the North American version will be UNICODE_DISPLAY = 0. Part of the localization proccess can be to turn this feature on (i.e. UNICODE_DISPLAY = 1) for those language versions where multi-lingual display is important. In either case, the end user can override the setting for his system by editing the Notes.ini.
There is currently no User Interface in the Notes Client for enabling Unicode display. Keyboard Switching In conjunction with Unicode display the Notes 4.6 Client supports keyboard codepage switching. The client pays attention to the currently selected keyboard input locale and converts keyboard input from the codepage for that locale into LMBCS, before being stored in a Notes DB.
The Notes.INI Variable was added between PR2 and PR3. In order to achieve the desired behavior, you should set the UNICODE_DISPLAY=1 line in the Notes.INI.