From: Noah Levitt (nlevitt@columbia.edu)
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 16:23:32 EDT
According to the docs at
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/indicot/other.htm,
uniscribe renders combining marks in isolation when they are
applied to SPACE + ZWJ. (Without the ZWJ, it uses a dotted
circle.) Perhaps this is an acceptable solution to the
people calling for a new character.
Combining marks and signs that appear in text not in
conjunction with a valid consonant base are considered
invalid. Uniscribe displays these marks using the fallback
rendering mechanism defined in the Unicode Standard
(section 5.12, 'Rendering Non-Spacing Marks' of the
Unicode Standard 3.1), i.e. positioned on a dotted circle.
Please note that to render a sign standalone (in apparent
isolation from any base) one should apply it on a space
(see section 2.5 'Combining Marks' of the Unicode
Standard). Uniscribe requires a ZWJ to be placed between
the space and a mark for them to combine into a standalone
sign.
Noah
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