Kaixo!
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 05:33:59PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> Syriac is not supported by Pango, but (given fonts) it probably
> would be a few hours to add such support.
>
> Basically, all that is needed is to take the Arabic support and
> change it for the Syriac joining classes, and for the encoding
> of the font.
Well, not exactly.
Arabic support is easy, because all presentation forms have code points
in unicode; that is fonts that provide those glyphs use those codepoints
it is standardized and life is easy.
Syriac, while similar in concept to Arabic script, only has unicode code
points for letters, not for presentation forms.
Which means there is the same font problem as with indic languages: how
are the presentation forms stored in a font?
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