. Dean Snyder wrote, > Tom Gewecke wrote at 2:26 PM on Sunday, January 18, 2004: > ... > > > >Agreed. I can't imagine that anyone who has ever tried to actually do > >anything with Unicode Mongolian would recommend variation selectors as an > >encoding technique, unless perhaps they wanted to make sure the encoding > >was never implemented. > > Could you please elaborate? Has this modle not been implemented? Either > via Unicode or otherwise? >
Here's how it works: there are three factions involved. The OS and rendering-engine developers, the editor/processor/input developers, and the font developers. Each faction considers that the fancy stuff needed for Mongolian rendering should properly be handled through a combination provided by the other two factions. Seriously, it's my understanding that implementation guidelines for Mongolian script and Unicode are still being worked out. Aside from experimental set-ups, it's unlikely that anyone can yet correctly (or, even reasonably) display the Mongolian text on Andrew C. West's test pages. Best regards, James Kass .
