On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
> 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.
Not completely true. Arabic, Persian, and possibly one or two other major
languages who are written in the Arabic script have the presentation forms
in Unicode, but not all Arabic letters (I had some numbers, but I can't
find them just now). Complete Arabic support will be just like Syriac
support. We have to choose some way: go the OpenType way, or come to some
assignment of glyph numbers somewhere (Private use area? After U+10FFFF?)
for the missing presentation forms.
roozbeh
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