Re: Latin w/ diacritics (was Re: benefits of unicode)

[Andrew Cunningham]

Quoting John Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> 
> Although there has not been any official announcement from Microsoft,
> and 
> no release date, my understanding is that 'generic' shaping is being
> added 
> to Uniscribe. This includes support for diacritic composition using 
> OpenType mark-to-base and mark-to-mark positioning lookups. The font 
> support is already in place (see the OpenType specification v1.3,
> published 
> last week, at http://www.microsoft.com/typography ), and the system
> support 
> is on the way.
> 

This is good news, whenever it does finally eventuate.

I'll look  at the new spec.


Andrew Cunningham
Multilingual Technical Project Officer
Vicnet, State Library of Victoria
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