Re: Glyph Stance

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 16:18:12 CDT

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    At 12:19 PM 5/25/2004, Dean Snyder wrote:
    >Archaic Greek exhibits variable glyph stance, that is, glyphs can be
    >flipped horizontally or even vertically, usually dependent upon the
    >direction of the writing stream.
    >
    >How should variable glyph stance for the same characters in the same
    >script be dealt with in Unicode and in a Unicode proposal?

    Change in orientation of the glyphs that's based on the writing direction
    should not be encoded via character codes. If it can't be determined
    automatically by a layout engine (as for mirrored characters) then
    explicit markup would be needed.

    Change in orientation of glyphs that are used to express differences in
    meaning are a candidate for encoding via character codes (vz. Arrows,
    phonetic symbols, inverted A and E for quantifiers, etc.).

    A./



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