RE: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Mon Oct 29 2007 - 17:30:37 CST

  • Next message: Peter Constable: "RE: Level of Unicode support required for various languages"

    I am not sure of you main point here - I was refering to how the IDS
    are rendered as in Unicode 5 page 430 where it says;-

    'An implementation may render a valid Ideographic Description Sequence
    either by rendering the individual characters separately or by parsing
    the Ideographic Description Sequence and drawing the ideograph so
    described. In the latter case, the Ideographic Description Sequence
    should be treated as a ligature of the individual characters for
    purposes of hit testing, cursor movement, and other user interface
    operations.'

    To use IDS in running Zhuang text and "parse" is acceptable, and in a
    text containing a large number of IDS sequences even desirable from
    the point of view of human readbility.

    Yours sincerely
    John Knnightley

    Quoting Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>:

    > Ideographic Description Sequence characters are not meant for, and
    > should not be used for, representing text elements in running text
    > other than ideographic description sequences. In other words,
    > descriptions of characters that would be used in simple sentences of
    > Zhuang can be represented in Unicode, but simple sentences of
    > Zhuang cannot.
    >
    >
    > Peter
    >
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    > To: Andrew West
    > Cc: Kenneth Whistler; tarmes@fr.imaje.com; unicode@unicode.org
    > Subject: Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages
    >
    >
    > Since it is difficult to answer the question does uniocde support more
    > than half of the 4000 languages of the world, and who knows how many
    > dialects. The list of what is required grows the more one thinks about
    > it.
    >
    > For example talking about CJKV characters at present many characters
    > can only be repesented by IDS, one therefore really needs IDS to
    > character display to write even simple sentance in some languages like
    > Zhuang.
    >
    > While Europe has quite good coverage ( though not hungarian runes) the
    > coverage of asian and african scripts is sparse. Current scripts under
    > WG2 review include, but are by no means restricted to Javanese, Lisu,
    > Miao, Nushu, and Tangut. Some scripts like Egyptians Heiroglyphics
    > will need a higher protocol outside of the scope of uniocde to display
    > properly.
    >
    > John Knightley
    >
    > Quoting Andrew West <andrewcwest@gmail.com>:
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