srintuar wrote:
This may be more of a practical issue: for some scripts such as Korean, representing every possible character and partial character could require a very large amount of codespace. We only have the precomposed characters now for compatibility with platforms that simply dont support composition whatsoever (all too common still, sadly).
For example: do these both work under your mailreader? NFC: Tiáng Viát NFD: TieÌÌng VieÌÌt
(for me under mozilla mail the second one looks slightly different, which means its not working perfectly)
This could be due to one (or more) of several reasons:
a) the font being used for display is not a "smart" (OpenType/AAT/Graphite font).
b) the font contains no mark-to-mark lookups that can place one diacritic above another
c) The smart font shaping engine (e.g Pango or Uniscribe)does not support mark-to-mark positioning lookups.
- Chris
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