From: Christopher Fynn (chris.fynn@gmail.com)
Date: Fri May 20 2011 - 03:46:28 CDT
On 19/05/2011, Plamen Tanovski <pgt@tanovski.de> wrote:
> I've just tested some "standard" fonts, see the attachment or get the
> pdf here:
>
> http://www.tanovski.de/testcomb.pdf
>
> It was made with OpenOffice (WordPad produces the same picture) on
> WinXP. The first letter is the combined cyrillic vowel, the second is
> Aacute. Do you see the difference? One font can't even display
> properly the digraph! On Linux, it looks similar too.
>
> Still, thanks to all, who replied. I've learned a lot.
>
> best regards
>
> --
> Plamen Tanovski
> Tanovski & Partners Publishing Services
> www.mengensatz.de
> Tel. +49 341 3 08 57 60
>
Some of your problems may be due to the limitations of the OpenType
shaping engines found in Winsows XP (Uniscribe / usp10.dll) and Linux
(Pango). The way these are currently implemented makes combining glyphs from
different scripts difficult. This is not so much a limitation of
Unicode or of OpenType but a limitation of the particular software
used on those platforms to process the OpenType instructions in fonts.
- C
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