From: Behnam (behnam.rassi@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 12 2008 - 19:40:52 CDT
Sorry my mistake. It must have been another font then that does this
'back-up' operation. Nonetheless, if the intention is to provide a
legible text (which is not the case with last resort) the specific
problem with Arabic script regarding this kind of operations remains.
I guess I now know what font is being discussed here. It never shows
up in practical use for Arabic script. Only when I dig into Arabic
Presentation Forms A and B, which are never encoded in Arabic script
anyway (and shouldn't be). SIL fonts that I mentioned by the way,
don't cover those presentation forms either.
Yes I think Last Resort is a quick way to realize what is missing.
And it doesn't require expertise by the user. The rest is up to the
user. I just didn't know that those square signs that I occasionally
see were actually coming from Last Resort!
Behnam
On 12-Jun-08, at 7:20 PM, John H. Jenkins wrote:
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> Le Jun 12, 2008 à 3:22 PM, Behnam a écrit :
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>> On OS X it is a very useful feature. But not for Arabic script.
>> Because it only shows the generic shape of the main letters and it
>> doesn't have AAT tables for 'contextualization' of Arabic
>> characters. And even if it had, it couldn't be useful.
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> First of all, it doesn't have "the generic shape of the main
> letters," since it uses the same glyph for every assigned character
> in the Arabic block. This is *not* a fallback pan-Unicode font.
> It has the sole purpose of letting the user know that they need a
> font covering a particular Unicode block in order to see certain
> text which cannot currently be displayed. Period. That's it. It
> is not intended in any way to provide legible text in *any* script.
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> John H. Jenkins
> jenkins@apple.com
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