From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 12:27:53 EDT
Jungshik Shin wrote on 04/25/2003 01:01:02 AM:
> It seems like a lot of Thai truetype fonts (without GSUB/GPOS tables)
> for Windows use U+F700 - U+F717 for presentation forms
Actually, the UPC fonts all use F700..F71D
> However, I don't believe those codepoints
> are used in _text/document_ encoding by Windows.
That's correct.
> Some 'Thainess' might
> have been attached to them by some Windows applications (as it turned
> out to be the case for PUA codepoints mapped from UDC areas of legacy
> CJK encodings), but I guess/hope not.
I don't think this has been the case. I believe these have just been
codepoints used for internal purposes by GDI (and perhaps more recently by
Uniscribe -- though they are moving away from encoded presentation forms
for Thai).
- Peter
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