Re: how can I write an arabic square root- I think I've understood alittle.

On 04/01/2002 07:24:40 PM Markus Scherer wrote: I believe that the current mirrored and mirrored glyph properties are useful only when no help can be obtained from the font; otherwise, the resolved directionality should be provided to the font, which should then select the appropriate shape

conversion performance: UTF-8 BOCU-1 SCSU

I have numbers for text size and conversion performance of BOCU-1 and SCSU relative to UTF-8. Quick summary: For Latin text, UTF-8 is best. For CJK, BOCU-1 and SCSU provide smaller size, with some speed trade-off. For other scripts, BOCU-1 and SCSU are much better than UTF-8 in both speed and

Re: how can I write an arabic square root- I think I've understood a little.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This raises a question in my mind: how is an app to know whether the layout engine+font are smart enough? ... In other words, it seems to me that it must be agreed that an app should assume it is handled by Uniscribe/OT, or should assume that it is not. Yes, I

UCD 3.2.0

Hi all, I'd like to make a few remarks about the UCD files. The following things I ran into when checking out the 3.2.0 release: o In PropertyValueAliases-3.2.0.txt line 79: ccc; 202; ATBL ; Attached_Below_Left whereas in UnicodeData-3.2.0.html I read: 200: Below left