On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: > On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 08:01:43PM -0400, Thomas Chan wrote: > > There are a few scripts that are top-to-bottom, with no real and normal > > alternative, such as the classical Mongolian script (top-to-bottom, > > Mongolian script exists also in horizontal, left to right variant. > (it is a quite new invention, yes).
It is horizontal, top-to-bottom, or horizontal, bottom-to-top? I've heard of horizontal, bottom-to-top for limited embedding in Latin script text. Is a it a new invention adopted for independent reasons, or a concession to use the script on Latin(script)-based technology? > > In the case of CJK and basic display, 18x18 is extravagant--16x16 is > > sufficient for daily purposes, > > Remember that it will be implemented on framebuffer console, that is, > with a much higher resolution than plain old VGA. > Maybe it would even be possible to implement use of OpenType fonts. Wasn't the concern about the size of a font that would have to be fit into the kernel (if that is still an issue)? Thomas Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
