From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 17:54 +0100 2003-11-09, Philippe Verdy wrote: > >From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> When we encode Tifinagh we will encode Tifinagh. We will not > >> meta-encode it for ease of transliteration to other scripts. > > > >Yes that was the intent of my suggestion, I don't say that this must > >be done. But what would be wrong if a font was created for the > >Tifinagh script that would display Latin-based glyphs with > >diacritics rather than historic glyphs? > > I think you should go back and learn about the characater/glyph model > if you think this is a good idea.
I think we are bothering each other, simply because of mutual misunderstanding. There's nothing in my question above that breaks that model: the abstract character coded in the Tifinagh script is kept unchanged and separated from the actual glyph it uses when rendering. So my question is, once again: would a font that would display pointed Latin glyphs from Tifinagh script code points really break the Unicode model? If not, then we have a convenient way to define Tifinagh keyboards / input methods based on this _apparent_ transliteration. This still requires a specific mapping to codepoints in the keyboard driver when set to input for Tifinagh, allows editing with a set of glyphs that a user can read, and then render it transparently with a real Tifinagh font. This would be a great tool for example on web site: the same text or web page could be displayed with the Latin glyphs or with the historic Tifinagh glyphs, by only selecting a distinct font. So a page in Berber would be composed once, and readable from both communities that can read either the Latin script or the Tifinagh script, and there would be now no need to use one of the many kludge conventions that exist for that language when presenting contents in Berber (notably for those pages that are coded with a mix of Latin letters, Greek letters, or symbols like dollar and asterisk... The purpose of this suggestion (which does not affect the separation between Unicode abstract characters and glyphs) is _better accessibility_. Nothing else.
