2009/3/26 Ron Aaron: > > The strange thing is that the fonts *do* have Hebrew characters, but > it may be > that they are not tagged in such a way that OS/X can extract the > correct > glyphs. For example, the monospace font "Miriam Fixed" has Hebrew > characters, > as does "Courier New" (from MS) - but neither seems to be able to be > used in > MacVim for Hebrew, nor "Web Hebrew Monospace" nor "SBL Hebrew". But > the > non-monospace "Ezra SIL" works, as does "David MF" and various others > (all > non-monospace :( )
Yeah, I don't understand this either. The Cocoa font system is very much like a black box (at least to me) -- it is hard to get any control over aspects such as font substitution. There is probably some way to "massage" the font files to get this to work but I have no idea where you find information on this. >> It would be very helpful if you could send me a file on which you can >> reproduce all of these issues so that I can try it out myself. > > I have a set of two files: one with just the base characters and one > with > combining (niqud) characters. You can get the file here: > > http://ronware.org/vim-hebrew.zip Thanks, I see the problem now. I am aware that composing characters are problematic and I am not sure how easy it will be to fix with the default and ATSUI renderers. Still, I will take another look to refresh my memory (and it is good to have some example file to work on as a test). Failing that there is much more hope for the half-finished CoreText renderer I have yet to finish and push to the repo -- I am confident that I can get composing characters working properly with it. So, I might take another look at that as well. Anyway, I'll post again when I have something more to say on this. Björn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
