On 08/01/2013 09:49 AM, Pascal Sancho wrote:
> I'm not sure there is a specific script for Vietnamese. IIUC, this
> can be written either with latin script, or with a chinese subset
> script.
> Both Latin ans Chinese scripts are handled correctly with Fop,
> without complex script feature. You should just feed FOP with an
> appropriate font. Maybe I'm wrong; Glenn can confirm | infirm?

I’ll let Jonathan clarify exactly what he meant, but Vietnamese is
typically written in the Latin script with a *lot* of combining
diacritics.  A naïve implementation can result in very ugly characters;
some sophistication is needed to stack multiple combining characters
correctly.

~Chris
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