Hi All, I would like the list discuss this. I will sit back and wait:) History: Thuraiappah came to me and asked how Tamil could be supported in Yudit. I told him that as far as I know Indic scripts are pretty much out of luck as there are no presentation forms defined in Unicode. I advised him to add private area glyphs to precompose.mys. He made Tamil supported within a few hours!
Issues: 1. Can Yudit just 'standardise' on its own? I tried to adhere to Unicode wherever it made sense. I understand that standrards are important. But things could be so much easier... 2. Is there a way to, say, register private area precompositions? 3. I think presentation should be part of a standard. What do you think? [I made this list pretty short this time - I don't want to be a troll - I want to solve a problem] Non-issues: Tamil rpivate area affects only visual representation so the files saved are fully unicode compliant. Thanks Gaspar ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:30:05 -0800 (PST) From: Thuraiappah Vaseeharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Gaspar Sinai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Tamil language in Yudit: It Works! Hi Gaspar, Many thanks for your help. I was able get Tamil composed glyps working by including the appropriate definitions in precompose.my; this is so cool! I'll send you the Tamil-related files soon. Do the glyphs in the private use area have to be "registered" somewhere? Otherwise, we would have to define different precompose sequences for each font, don't we? > if you write something after and before then we may > need Arabic-like shaping otherwise precompose.mys > would be just fine. If this is not a requirement - > at least for a text editor - we might be fine. The definitions in precompose.my appear to cover all the Tamil glyphs. Arabic type shaping is probably not needed for Tamil. Thanks again, -Vasee __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
