Re: Suppressing Ligation of Spacing Marks

inserting some zero-width word joiner or disjoiner should work with this... But if you see a dotted circle, you need to encode some zero-width space as the base holder for the combining vowel sign following it. However I wonder if fonts accept zero-width holders for combining vowels, they could

Re: Multiple Preposed Marks

2016-11-09 0:42 GMT+01:00 Richard Wordingham < richard.wording...@ntlworld.com>: > On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 00:00:01 +0100 > Philippe Verdy wrote: > > > 2016-11-08 9:30 GMT+01:00 Richard Wordingham < > > richard.wording...@ntlworld.com>: > > > > > TUS Section 2.11 says, "If the

Re: Multiple Preposed Marks

2016-11-08 9:30 GMT+01:00 Richard Wordingham < richard.wording...@ntlworld.com>: > TUS Section 2.11 says, "If the combining characters can interact > typographically—for example, U+0304 combining macron and U+0308 > combining diaeresis — then the order of graphic display is > determined

Re: Multiple Preposed Marks

On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 21:36, Richard Wordingham wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 08:30:25 + > Richard Wordingham wrote: > > > and the need for an OpenType feature (probably a cvXX) > > for inconsistent handling of U+1A58 MAI KANG LAI. The latter may be a > > challenge - I couldn't persuade MS

Re: Multiple Preposed Marks

On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 08:30:25 + Richard Wordingham wrote: > and the need for an OpenType feature (probably a cvXX) > for inconsistent handling of U+1A58 MAI KANG LAI. The latter may be a > challenge - I couldn't persuade MS Edge to use the font's Lao shaping

Re: The (Klingon) Empire Strikes Back

I believe there's already a court ruling that say languages and words are not copyrightablein the case about loglan, although the trademarkability of an language is another matter. 2016年11月5日 01:42 於 "David Faulks" 寫道： > > On Thu, 11/3/16, Mark Shoulson

Re: The (Klingon) Empire Strikes Back

On 2016-11-08, Mark E. Shoulson wrote: > I've heard that there are similar questions regarding tengwar and cirth, > but it is notable that UTC *did* see fit to consider this question for > them and determine that they were worthy of encoding (they are on the > roadmap), even

Suppressing Ligation of Spacing Marks

Should it be possible to suppress the ligation of a base character and a visually following spacing mark in plain text? The example I have in minf is the sequence . It may be desirable to suppress the ligation because both ligands have

Multiple Preposed Marks

TUS Section 2.11 says, "If the combining characters can interact typographically—for example, U+0304 combining macron and U+0308 combining diaeresis — then the order of graphic display is determined by the order of coded characters (see Table 2-5). By default, the diacritics