On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Why not submit a proposal to include them to Unicode?
They are not characters. They are glyphs. The only reason they have
encoded the current presentations forms is legacy character sets (I have
heard that it was the Egypt government who pushed them). And both Unicode
and JTC1/SC2/WG2 have agreed not to encode any more presentation forms
(unless they exist in a character set used before 1991).
I completely understand their idea, and agree with it. The presentation
forms are against the sense of the standards. Yes, I know that if they
didn't exist, good Unicode Arabic support would have needed to wait more,
but in that case, we would have already agreed to the infrastructure
needed for other cursive scripts, Indic ones, Syriac, and Tibetan (any
missing?).
roozbeh
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