https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29005
Cibu C J <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #26 from Cibu C J <[email protected]> 2011-12-16 22:41:51 UTC --- Unicode didn't add the Malayalam Chillu characters on a whim. It was added after around 2 years of deliberations. UTC finally concluded that, practice existed before 5.1 was problematic and standalone characters has to be defined for Malayalam Chillus. It is a misreading of the standard that it specifies two different encodings for chillus. There is only one encoding and that is the standard chillus defined in 5.1. What standard says is, the rendering implementations should be prepared to handle the pre-existing data that was present, before chillus were properly defined. So, if at all you are converting the codepoints, that should be from pre-existing sequences to standard chillus. Also, keep in mind that never these two sequences (standard chillus, and pre-existing sequence counterparts) will be canonically equivalent. Characters has to be marked canonically equivalent when they are defined. That didn't happen; so it will never happen as per the rules. We don't need to play UTC here. Rather, we should be thinking about what is best for the Malayalam users. If you take the stock of things today from the implementation point of view, it is like this: Standard chillus(>=5.1): - All rendering systems support them because they are plain simple characters without any special joining properties. If the font has it, rendering engine can display it. - Almost all Malayalam fonts support it. In case of fonts like Rachana, Meera etc, even though original version does not have the chillu characters, there are versions available with the standard chillus. Pre-existing non-standard chillus(<5.1): - In case of rendering systems it is a hit or miss. Some browsers in some systems can display them correctly - example. Firefox + Linux, Chrome + Windows etc. Some others cannot display them. For example, Chrome + Linux. - All Malayalam fonts support them. Since this is about WebFonts, fonts are in Wikimedia's control, but the rendering systems are not. So you should be going with the option that would fetch maximum support from rendering systems. Also, I want to mention the original political positions of Santhosh and me. Santhosh was arguing against standalone chillus and I was arguing for it. However, decision has been made by UTC years back. Now it is time for implementations to follow the standard so that a standard will be beneficial to its users. Wikimedia should not get stuck in Unicode 5.0 and it should progress to later versions as the Unicode standard progresses. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
