Re: Run-time checking of fonts for Sinhala support

From: Harshula (harshula@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Sep 20 2009 - 11:21:37 CDT

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    Hi,

    Thank you all for your helpful feedback! I started with:

    a) 'Operating systems shall only recognise Level 1 compliant fonts as
    Sinhala fonts.'

    Taking into account the concerns that were raised, I've revised it to:

    b) 'Operating systems shall, to the extent of their capabilities, only
    recognise Level 1 or above compliant fonts as Sinhala fonts.'

    Is there a clear preference for replacing "shall" with "should". i.e.
    Changing it to a recommendation?:

    c) 'Operating systems should, to the extent of their capabilities, only
    recognise Level 1 or above compliant fonts as Sinhala fonts.'

    Please indicate your preference. Don't expect me to extrapolate from
    your previous comments.

    I've taken particular note of the suggestions to utilise
    Wikipedia/Wiktionnary and to use a BSD license for any font checking
    code.

    cya,
    #

    On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 11:25 -0700, Asmus Freytag wrote:
    > On 9/9/2009 8:19 AM, Harshula wrote:
    > >
    > >> better to state explicitly that fonts compliant to Level 1
    > >> *or above* are recognized, if that's what you mean, even though Levels 2
    > >> and 3 are defined elsewhere as supersets of lower levels. I think
    > >> Roozbeh may have mentioned this already.
    > >>
    > >
    > > No, he did not. Thanks, I will incorporate that change. The other option
    > > is to change the "shall" to a "should". i.e. change it to a
    > > recommendation. Do you have any preference/comments on that?
    > >
    > I think you should be able to answer that in the affirmative given the
    > tenor of the discussion so far!
    >
    > A./



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