From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 07:35:35 EDT
On Friday, July 18, 2003 12:42 PM, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:
> At 12:16 +0200 2003-07-18, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>
> > Is there some work at CEN to align its MES-2 subset into a revized
> > (MES-2.1 ???) which not only takes into consideration the ISO10646
> > reference but also its Unicode properties to make this set
> > self-closed, and actually implementable, at least with NFC closure
> > and case-mappings closure?
>
> No. The relevant CEN committee is now dormant.
So this work must be done by independant open-sourcers sharing their
experience to allow fonts to be created that are completely compatible
with MES-2. (Here this is my opinion: I think it's stupid to create fonts
that are containing strictly, only but completely the MES-2 set, which
must only be viewed as a minimum set).
I note that Microsoft core fonts for Windows are supporting MES-2, but
in a unrestricted way: other characters are also included, and UniScribe
allows selecting ligatures and rendering combining sequences with
composite glyphs if defined in OpenType fonts, or with a default multi-
glyph stack.
I note that you "prefer the European Multilingual Subset" to MES-2.
Is it an extended set that includes MES-2, and fills the holes by
using all characters defined in blocks of some version of the Unicode
set?
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