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		batina on Dec 5, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Design and Implementation of a Win32 Text Editor (... You can still use Uniscribe in Windows 10 but as you said it has been superseded by DirectWrite (used in Microsoft Word, WPF, etc).

imron on Dec 5, 2016 [–]

Yep, you can definitely still use it all, just like you can continue to use the even older APIs too - hooray for backwards compatibility.

Just pointing out that the technology for Notepad has actually changed and improved since 2005.

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