2012/7/4 Naena Guru <[email protected]>: > Philippe Verdy, obviously has spent a lot of time
Not a lot of time... Sorry. > researching the web site > and even went as far as to check the faults of the web service provider, > Godaddy.com. I did not even note that your hosting provider was that company. I just looked at the HTTP headers to look at the MIME type and charset declarations. Nothing else. > He called my font a hack font without any proof of it. It is really a hack. Your font assigns Sinhalese characters to Latin letters (or some punctuations) of ISO 8859-1. It also assigns contextual variants of the same abstract Sinhalese letters, to ISO 8859-1 codes, plus glyphs for some ligatures of multiple Sinhalese letters to ISO 8859-1 codes, plus it reorders these glyphs so that they no longer match the Sinhalese logicial order. Yes this font is a hack because it pretends to be ISO 8859-1 when it is not. It is a specific distinct encoding which is neither ISO 859-1 and neither Unicode, but something that exists in NO existing standard. > It has > only characters relevant to romanized Singhala within the SBCS. Most of the > work was in the PUA and Look-up Tables. I am reminded of Inspector Clouseau > that has many gadgets and in the end finds himself as the culprit. And you have invented a Inspector Guru gadget for your private use on your site, instead of developping a TRUE separate encoding that you SHOULD NOT name "ISO 8859-1". Try to do that, but be aware that the ISO registry of 8-bit encodings is now frozen. You'll have to convince the IANA registry to register your new encoding. For now it is registered nowhere. This is a purely local creation for your site. > I will still read and try those other things Philippe suggests, when I get > time. What is important for me is to improve on orthography rules and add > more Indic languages -- Devanagari and Tamil coming up. > > As for those who do not want to think rationally and think Unicode is a > religion, No. Unicode is a technical solution for a long problem : interoperability of standards using open technologies. Given that you do not want to even develop your own encoding as a registered open standard compatible with a lot of applications (remember that all new web standards MUST now support Unicode in at least one of its standard UTF, you're just loosing time here) > I can only point to my dilemma: > http://lovatasinhala.com/assayaa.htm > > Have a Happy Fourth of July! Next time don't cite me personnaly trying to conveince others that I have supported or said something I did not write myself. You have interpreted my words at your convenience, but I don't want to be associated nominatively and publicly with your personnal interpretations. Even if I also have my own opinions, I don't want to cite anyone else's opinions without just quoting his own sentences (provided that these sentences were public or that I was authorized by him to quote his sentences in other contexts). Stop this abuse of personalities. Thanks.
