From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sun May 01 2005 - 13:22:51 CDT
James Kass <jameskass at att dot net> wrote:
> All you need in order to be able to print Cyrillic with combining
> diacritics (as needed for text books etc.) is a good OpenType font
> covering Cyrillic, including the combining diacritics, and having
> OpenType glyph positioning tables. And, a system plus applications
> which support such OpenType rendering.
Since David is apparently just learning about the capabilities of
different font technologies, and the difference between encoding and
rendering issues, I would point out that accented Cyrillic can also be
printed correctly with font technologies other than OpenType, at least
in theory. Unicode is not dependent on any particular vendor's or
consortium's technology.
-- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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