----- Message d'origine ----- De: "Christopher John Fynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> It's plain silly to expect support for every Unicode character to be present on > every platform and in every application "right out of the box" soon after > characters are officially encoded in the Unicode Standard, especially > characters for scripts have complex rendering requirements. How about after a few years? > Fonts for some > scripts can take a long time to make properly, Well, some fonts would be better than none (and they have to be made so that the Unicode standard be printed). > and then they have to be tested. > Layout engines may need updating and these have to be thoroughly tested too. > Then applications need to be updated to handle proper line breaking, word > selection and so on. > > Things like math formulas may and music notation have their own special layout > requirements - This - I believe - is not expected from any application purporting to support Unicode. P. A.
