Danilo Segan wrote:
The only possible reform that would alleviate this condition would be to completely unify the latin and cyrillic scripts or to eliminate one of them. Then cyrillic or latin could simply be a font setting for users of all languages.
(I dont know if this is even possible, you said yourself they are only "almost" bijective)
If you cannot eliminate the possibility of serbian being written in a cyrillic or latin script then the original problem will only be compounded.
Apples AAT font spec has a Transliteration feature:
"Transliteration
The Transliteration feature types allows text is one format to be displayed using another format. An example is taking a hiragana string and displaying it as katakana. This is an exclusive feature type.
Currently defined selectors for this feature are:
o No Transliteration
o Hanja to Hangul
o Hiragana to Katakana
o Katakana to Hiragana
o Kana to Romanization
o Romanization to Hiragana
o Romanization to Katakana
o Hanja to Hangul, Alternative Set 1
o Hanja to Hangul, Alternative Set 2
o Hanja to Hangul, Alternative Set 3"
If Serbian Cyrillic to Serbian Latin (or vice versa) were defined this could be used to create fonts that allowed you to use characters for one script and display them in either Cyrillic or Latin.
<http://developer.apple.com/fonts/Registry/#Type23>
- Chris
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