> Sorry again Tom for paraphrasing for you. Please > confirm whether I represented what you tried to say > properly.
Mete, You paraphrase is correct with one caveat: the rendering engines are not the problem. The modern rendering engine is built for dynamic fonts (a concept pioneered by DecoType). As a result the combination of Unicode and dynamic fonts is a generic solution, that can be made to work in most cases. If the industry does not bother to implement Unicode, it is usually in the Fonts Domain. For unskilled end-users, that is frustrating. But I understand this group has the competence and the will do improve Arabic computing, so you need tools to adjust or build the necessary dynamic fonts. Being an OS community I suspect you want them for free as well. OK, OpenType (http://www.adobe.com/type/opentype/main.html) is the closest thing to Open Source. From MS you can obtain lots of guidance and even tools to develop or adjust your own fonts:http://www.microsoft.com/typography/default.mspx. The least you should expect from the hosting operating systems that you are putting your cards on is that they support the concept of cross-platform font technology like OpenType. DecoType is also developing ACE into a Unicode-based cross-platform function. For the end-user it should be irrelevant whether his Unicode text is rendered by ATSUI, OT, Graphite or ACE. Therefore it is of the utmost importance that the encoded characters of the Unicode standard are of universal, plain text relevance and not proposed to address an ad hoc problem of a particular font on a particular platform. t _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
