>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...
How can you standardize without fonts? >2. Is there a way to, say, register private >area precompositions? There's no way to register anything in the private use zone. There's an unofficial conlang registry, but this wouldn't count. >3. I think presentation should be part of a >standard. What do you think? I think it's a moot point. They long ago decided to make presentation not part of the standard. For a number of scripts - even Latin - the ligatures are very font dependent. Also, including all precomposed characters in Unicode would increase the number of characters immensely. Latin characters can appear with many accent marks, in various combinantions that aren't included in Unicode. Both mathematics and IPA use accents in unlimited combination with large set of base characters. There are hundreds of languages out there that use Cyrillic and Latin scripts with characters not precomposed in Unicode. This hasn't even mentioned Tamil, Devengarai and the other scripts that need to be precomposed in common use. >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? You can't register glyphs in the private use area. There are several preexisting mappings over large sections of the private use zone. Either you'll have to make a font standard or define different precompose sequences for each font or encode the precompose sequences in the font. See below for BDF fonts, or look up OpenType for ligatured scalable fonts. http://www.wholehog.fsnet.co.uk/robert/indic/fonts.html -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
