On 07/31/2002 05:46:02 PM Eric Muller wrote:
>Eg. don't you also want the strings that contain a sprinkling of ZWJ, >ZWNJ, CGJ, SHY and various other things? (Yuck.) Why, of course. (Bleecchh.) But it's easier to write an algorithm to insert those than to derive the other. (Gag, choke.) So, I was just asking for the harder part, but if you've got something to offer that generates the myriad possibilities involving both... (Wretch.) Ahem. Actually, I, like you, would much rather not have to mess with all this within fonts -- would much rather have the software / font interface deal with the equivalencies -- but the current state of our technologies requires that, if we want our fonts to provide the same display for all of the different possible sequences that ought to appear the same, then we have to deal with each and every one. And when you're dealing with a Latin font and want to support stacking of multiple-diacritic combinations (given different possible orderings, different possible combinations encoded as precomposed characters, and all those invisibles), that's a lot of possibilities. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485 E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
