On Friday, July 18, 2003 12:42 PM, Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 12:16 +0200 2003-07-18, Philippe Verdy wrote: > > > Is there some work at CEN to align its MES-2 subset into a revized > > (MES-2.1 ???) which not only takes into consideration the ISO10646 > > reference but also its Unicode properties to make this set > > self-closed, and actually implementable, at least with NFC closure > > and case-mappings closure? > > No. The relevant CEN committee is now dormant. So this work must be done by independant open-sourcers sharing their experience to allow fonts to be created that are completely compatible with MES-2. (Here this is my opinion: I think it's stupid to create fonts that are containing strictly, only but completely the MES-2 set, which must only be viewed as a minimum set). I note that Microsoft core fonts for Windows are supporting MES-2, but in a unrestricted way: other characters are also included, and UniScribe allows selecting ligatures and rendering combining sequences with composite glyphs if defined in OpenType fonts, or with a default multi- glyph stack. I note that you "prefer the European Multilingual Subset" to MES-2. Is it an extended set that includes MES-2, and fills the holes by using all characters defined in blocks of some version of the Unicode set?
