At 12:44 -0800 2003-12-03, John Hudson wrote:
At 04:30 AM 12/3/2003, Peter Kirk wrote:
An adequate proposal for a complex script should surely include a
proper account of the script behaviour and sample glyphs of
presentation forms. And so such a proposal should include all that
is needed for a developer, and is available some time before the
new script is officially standardised.
I disagree. What you describe may be desirable, but in no way is it
necessary. What is important to document in a proposal is what is
necessary to *encode* text, not to display it. Remember that a lot
of work was done on encoding complex scripts in Unicode before there
were adequate font and shaping engine technologies in place to
implement the character/glyph model as envisaged.
John is absolutely right.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
