Hi James,
Quoting James Kass <jameskass@worldnet.att.net>:
>
> Many African adaptations of the Latin script require
> characters which aren't precomposed in Unicode.
>
yep, you can add a number of australian aboriginal languages to that list as
well
> One example of a common problem is with combining
> diacritics designed for lower case letters. When the
> diacritic is used with a capital letter, it appears at the
> default height and is superimposed on the capital letter
> rather than appearing above it.
>
> The new OpenType font specifications enable such
> combinations to be displayed correctly.
>
> Uniscribe is the mechanism that accesses OpenType
> features on Microsoft OS. The version of Uniscribe
> currently available doesn't yet have support for Latin
> OpenType features enabled. I seem to recall having
> read recently that Latin features would soon be
> enabled in Uniscribe, perhaps as early as this summer.
>
I hope so, last comment i remeber reading on the volt mailing list seemed to
indicate tehy weren't overly interesed in supporting latin. Hope they do. And
depending on how they do it, it might make unicode for african langauges
possible.
Andj.
Andrew Cunningham
Multilingual Technical Project Officer
Vicnet, State Library of Victoria
andrewc@vicnet.net.au
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