John H. Jenkins <jenkins at apple dot com> wrote: > There has been considerable uproar in the font development community > lately about Unicode making unwarranted assumptions about how fonts > work. I think it would be improper for us to add a character to the > standard on the basis of "font technology X solves the problem".
This is precisely one of the points I was trying to make in the ZWJ-ligation thread a few weeks ago. It would be improper for Unicode to do *anything* on the basis of "font technology X solves the problem". (Some were suggesting ZWJ was unnecessary for ligation control because the required intelligence could be built into OpenType fonts, which implies that OpenType is a core component of Unicode.) Likewise, if "Linear Tamil" ends up being adopted and Unicode has to support both old and new orthographies, it would be wrong to presume pre-emptively that no changes will be ever needed in Unicode because the changes can all be delegated to OpenType internal tables. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
