This depends on how sophisticated the fonts are. It is straightforward to make fonts that map from a series of characters to a precomposed glyph, getting you exactly the same quality you would get with a precomposed character.
(And it is possible in the rendering engine to do a better job of accent placement in the absence of font information -- not necessarily ideal, but more legible: see http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn2/. I have heard a rumor that MS will be supporting better accent placement in their next OS.) Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com â ààààààààààààààààààààà â ----- Original Message ----- From: "African Oracle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mon, 2004 May 03 04:47 Subject: Re: Nice to join this forum.... > "Unicode will not allocate any more codes for characters that can be made > precomposed, as it would disrupt normalization. Others can better tell you > how to get the job done with what you have." - D. Starner > > Thanks for your response. Unless I am missing something here. I think the > purpose of letters is the ability to be able to represent what is implied to > be said or what is said graphically with its accompanied meaning. If that is > the case, I should think that such representation should be done properly. > > There is no problem with the dot below concerning all the letters I was > talking about, the problems are with the accents which are not properly > positioned and in font development for example there are standard positions. > Look at the following examples as sent by Ãke > > EÌ Ì the accent is at the edge of the E with dot below - It is the same no > matter which font is used > On this OÌÌ it almost fell off > eÌeÌÌeÌeÌÌ - On all these ones they are not on the same level > > It is not difficult to draw all these and make a better presentation and > representation of these letters. I must admit that Unicode is doing a good > job and will say it is better to do it well from outset especially where the > representative or someone with vast language of particular nation or people > is around to assist. > > If it has to be, which is beginning to be, it has to be well. > > > Dele Olawole > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "D. Starner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "African Oracle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 11:45 AM > Subject: Re: Nice to join this forum.... > > > > > Yes, I have looked at the code and infact used the Microsoft Keyboard > > > Keyboard Layout without any success. One thing I observed is that since > the > > > character are not drawn with the accent assigned where they should be, > at > > > low font size they are disaster. Using Fontlab to design the fonts and > > > assigned codes the way they appear on the link only generate two > characters > > > in the font table. > > > > > > I thing it will be better if they are drawn out which I can do and > > > appropriate code assigned by UNICODE. > > > > Unicode will not allocate any more codes for characters that can be made > > precomposed, as it would disrupt normalization. Others can better tell > > you how to get the job done with what you have. > > > > As for the GB ligature, that might actually get encoded if you can > > provide sufficent evidence for it. > > -- > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com > > http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm > > > > > > > >
