On 14-06-2011 20:54, Eduardo Castiñeyra wrote:
Devanagari and Thai. So if these two scripts have non-codepointed glyphs I will have a good reason to force the redering guys to change their engine.
Donno about Thai but Devanagari (and any other Indic script) definitely has non-codepointed glyphs! See: http://www.unicode.org/faq/indic.html#17 --
Q: I cannot find on Unicode charts the "half forms" of Devanagari letters (or any other Indic script). These characters are needed to form words such as "patni".
A: Unicode does not encode half or subjoined letters for the scripts of India. Like in the ISCII standard, Unicode forms all "consonant clusters" (such as the "tn" in "patni") by inserting the character "virama" (or "halant") between the two relevant consonant letters ...
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