Re: Latin w/ diacritics (was Re: benefits of unicode)

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John Hudson wrote (way back on 2001-04-15):

>
> Although there has not been any official announcement from Microsoft, and
> no release date, my understanding is that 'generic' shaping is being added
> to Uniscribe. This includes support for diacritic composition using
> OpenType mark-to-base and mark-to-mark positioning lookups. The font
> support is already in place (see the OpenType specification v1.3, published
> last week, at http://www.microsoft.com/typography ), and the system support
> is on the way.
>

This was in response to a letter from Peter Constable concerning
Latin script and combining diacritics.

Is there any update on Uniscribe support for Latin? Does anyone
know of a target date for implementation?

Best regards,

James Kass.

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