Ok,
slight variation on the questions to date.
which opentype fonts (other than Dolous SIL and Code2000) support the
placement of combining diacritics?
Andrew
Andrew Cunningham
andj_c at iprimus.com.au
andrewc at vicnet.net.au
From: Philippe Verdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
What alarmed me is that this domain was previously referencing
Microsoft's
documentation.
Not that I know of.
Also the fact that Microsoft's presentation of OpenType (previously
TrueType
Open, previously TrueType) has removed the reference
From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Random access by code point index means that you don't use strings
as immutable objects,
No. Look at Python, Java and C#: their strings are immutable (don't
change in-place) and are indexed by integers (not
Regarding the following:
I think the obvious thing to do if you want to sort in the Pali/Sanskrit
alphabetical (alphabetical is not quite the right word
here)
May I ask what the right word or terminology is?
Thanks,
René
=
Rene Hache
Medical Chi-kung Practitioner
Victoria Healing
Regarding the following:
I think the obvious thing to do if you want to sort in the Pali/Sanskrit
alphabetical (alphabetical is not quite the right word
here)
May I ask what the right word or terminology is?
Thanks,
René
Chapter six of the unicode book ( the book is on
On Dec 3, 2004, at 2:54 AM, Andrew C. West wrote:
I strongly agree that all Unicode
implementations should cover all of Unicode, and not just the BMP, and
it really
annoys me when they don't; but suggesting that you need to implement
supra-BMP
characters because they are going to start popping
Philippe Verdy wrote:
What is strange also is that the www.opentype.org web site is a page
whose title refers to Arial Unicode MS. Isn't it a Microsoft font?
These things all combined are very intrigating.
Arial is a Monotype face: design, copyright, trademark. Always has been. Arial Unicode MS
Philippe Verdy wrote:
What is strange also is that the www.opentype.org web site is a page
whose title refers to Arial Unicode MS. Isn't it a Microsoft font?
These things all combined are very intrigating.
Arial is a Monotype face: design, copyright, trademark. Always has been. Arial Unicode MS
Antoine Leca wrote:
On Behalf Of Christopher Fynn
If a Windows application needs to properly display Unicode text for
languages such as Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Nepali, Sinhala, Arabic,
Urdu and so on then it probably needs to support OpenType GSUB and
GPOS lookups.
Not just probably.
Well, there
John Hudson wrote:
Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
Well, that's the difference under discussion. The plain text would
seem to be either the qere or the ketiv (but not the combined
blended form), since each of those is somewhat sensible.
Is there some place in the standard where it says text must be
Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There's nothing that requires the string storage to use the same
exposed array,
The point is that indexing should better be O(1).
Not having a constant side per code point requires one of three things:
1. Using opaque iterators instead of integer
Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
That said, I have nothing against using NBSP and various other tricks
and winding up supporting this. Even the INVISIBLE LETTER might make
sense in some settings (e.g. where you have something to be drawn in
later but the diacritic is printed now, for some reason).
On Dec 4, 2004, at 12:15 PM, John Hudson wrote:
I think Peter's point was that complex script require font layout
tables
Script complexity is not so easily quantified. Has anyone tried to sort
scripts by complexity? In terms of the present discussion, Han would be
viewed as a simple script, and
Richard Cook rscook at socrates dot berkeley dot edu wrote:
Script complexity is not so easily quantified. Has anyone tried to
sort scripts by complexity? In terms of the present discussion, Han
would be viewed as a simple script, and yet it is simple only in
terms of the script model in
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