Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote: > Tom, > Who are "we"? DecoType http://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/vendor.aspx?VID=DT http://www.myfonts.com/foundry/decotype/ http://diwww.epfl.ch/w3lsp/conferences/ridt98/decotype.html
in collaboration with WinSoft www.winsoft.fr http://www.knowledgeview.co.uk/partners/10-2005/Item-20051014-eff82754-d9cf-f9d7-0038-6751d907d68f/story.html > Will this introduce a new code for hamza? Care to > eloborate? To the contrary. One and the same code point U+0621 can remain to be used. To force its "amphibious" behaviour, we are using the Arabic LOCALE setting. By default, U+0621 remains the Persian hamza that it really is. t > On 3/14/06, Thomas Milo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Gregg Reynolds wrote: >>>> Thomas Milo wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Tatweel is not a grapheme. I have come to the conclusion, that the >>>>> letter shaping mechanism needs a new catagory: amphibuous >>>>> (literally "between both", between skeleton and vowel as a >>>>> category, as well as placed between two surrounding letters - with >>>>> optional and separately encoded tatweel. This idea handles the >>>>> problems with hamza U+0621, superscript alef, trailing/superscript >>>>> retroflex and possibly even the superscript waw. Think of it, if >>>>> you will. >>>> It's a lot simpler if you define tatweel as a chameleon instead of >>>> a frog. ;) It takes on ink or not depending on the inking of its >>>> neighbors, and it can bear stacking characters. Simple and >>>> elegant. >> >> We have now a working amphibious hamza, as well as a Trashideh >> mechanisme that deals with callgraphically misplaced tatweels. >> >> t >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general >> > > > > >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
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