Navin Ariyaratna wrote on 2003-01-14 11:18 UTC: > I've just discovered that there are a few characters > absent from the Unicode table for Sinhala (ver 3.0).
Please discuss your discovery on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list first, before even thinking about inventing private extensions. Chances are that you have simply misunderstood how the Unicode encoding of Sinhala works. Note that it is what we call a complex script that requires ligature-based rendering and is therefore not straight-forward to do under X11 with the classic locale and font mechanisms. Better look at the Pango renderer first. Especially study carefully not only the Unicode code table, but also chapter 9 of the standard itself: http://www.unicode.org/uni2book/ch09.pdf > Could I use any of the unoccupied code points (within > the Sinhala code space, of course) for these > characters as a temporary measure ? Please don't unless you can provide strong evidence that you really have discovered a gap in the Unicode standard, which would be a significant surprise at this stage. Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Lab, Univ of Cambridge, GB http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ | __oo_O..O_oo__ _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
