Peter Constable écrivit: >> On Behalf Of Christopher Fynn >> If a Windows application needs to properly display Unicode text for >> languages such as Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Nepali, Sinhala, Arabic, >> Urdu and so on then it probably needs to support OpenType GSUB and >> GPOS lookups. > > Not just "probably".
Well, there are other rendering technologies than Uniscribe; and some of them even succeed at displaying complex scripts... For a contrived yet verifiable (OpenSource) example, let have a look at Eric Mader's LayoutEngine (in ICU) using Apple (GX) fonts with a Unicode cmap. And yes I am talking of something that can run on Windows. Chris is correct, as Uniscribe is the undiscuted leader in year 2004. Antoine
