At 08:44 PM 4/15/2001 -0500, Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:
>There are literally hundreds, perhaps thousands, of languages with this
>issue. There's at least one language in Peru that has to stack diacritics
>three high!
>
>How do you handle these? You wait till the rendering technology catches up,
>or you build your own (e.g. Graphite) and build apps that work on that. I
>suspect (or, at least, certainly hope) we'll see progress in this regard in
>IE 6.
Although there has not been any official announcement from Microsoft, and
no release date, my understanding is that 'generic' shaping is being added
to Uniscribe. This includes support for diacritic composition using
OpenType mark-to-base and mark-to-mark positioning lookups. The font
support is already in place (see the OpenType specification v1.3, published
last week, at http://www.microsoft.com/typography ), and the system support
is on the way.
John Hudson
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