Peter Kirk wrote on 07/23/2003 04:40:03 AM: > I hope you are not suggesting that any application developers are > prepared to implement changes to support proposals which they have put > forward to the UTC but are not prepared to implement changes to support > alternative fixes to the same problems which may be preferred by the UTC > because they are acceptable to users. Well, this would be an acceptable > position if the alternative fix is much harder to implement than the > preferred proposal. But in this case the alternative fix, using CGJ, > seems to be actually a very trivial matter for a rendering engine.
There's a concern that it may not be a good idea for a developer to implement support for CGJ just in relation to Hebrew, and that the proposed usage of CGJ for Hebrew is quite distinct from it's more general uses. Doing half a job may cost more in the end, and one has to consider whether one's implementation, intended for Hebrew, has had any unexpected effects on one's implementations of other scripts. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485
