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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Andrew Cunningham <[email protected]>wrote: > HI Vinod, > > On 15 October 2010 13:04, Vinod Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Unicode compliance does not mean that complex text support must be on > Open > > Font format or its Feature tag based shaping technique. There is no doubt > > that the mobile phone community has accepted Unicode as the standard for > > text representation, and for what the text should look like when > > displayed. How the text should transform to the shapes is not under > > the purview of Unicode. If people find simpler or elegant ways of > > transforming Unicode text to shapes, these are not pseudo-Unicode > solutions. > > > > Actually you misinterpreted what i said. > > pseudo unicode is a term used to describe non-Unicode legacy glyph > based encodings that are superimposed over Unicode blocks. to the > average application it looks like Unicode but isn't Unicode. > > For the Myanmar script examples of pseudo-Unicode would include the > zawgyi and ayar fonts. > > For languages like Burmese pseudo-Unicode content is much more common > than Unicode content. And all mobile solutions I've seen for Burmese > have been non-Unicode. > > > > For example, India had a font standard called INSFOC for Devanagari. A > > shaping engine that will convert Devanagari text in Unicode to INSFOC > glyph > > code sequence would be completely Unicode compliant with respect to > > rendering of Devanagari. Some of my contacts have already extended this > > approach for Gujarati and plan to bring all the nine Indian scripts > too > > under the same Unicode text to font glyph code standard. > > That is what i would term transcoding, and not what i mean by > pseudo-Unicode. > > > -- > Andrew Cunningham > Senior Project Manager, Research and Development > Vicnet > State Library of Victoria > Australia > > [email protected] > [email protected] > > > -- ယနေ့မှစ၍ [email protected] ကိုသာဆက်သွယ်ကြပါ။ [email protected] ကို မကြာမှီပိတ်ပါတော့မည်။
