From: Christopher John Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 14:52:56 EST
> An adequate proposal for a complex script should surely include a proper
> account of the script behaviour and sample glyphs of presentation forms.
> And so such a proposal should include all that is needed for a
> developer, and is available some time before the new script is
> officially standardised.
There may be a few samples of presentation forms & conjuncts in a proposal -
but I've yet to see a proposal for Indic script that contains a comprehensive
set of all the presentation forms required to render all text written in that
script.
Character encoding proposals for complex scripts do not contain sufficient
information for a developer to write rules for a layout engine for the script
or enough information for a type designer to develop a font for the script.
If such information were a requirement I suspect a number of scripts that have
already been encoded in the standard would not be there yet.
> >If you code chart type glyphs are enough for you then on Windows if you have
MS
> >Office there is always Arial Unicode.
> Except that this font is stuck at Unicode 2.something. Or is there any
> sign of an update?
The version I have on my machine dated 03 June 1999 does contain characters
added with Unicode 3.0 though I haven't checked to see if all characters added
with Unicode 3.0 are all there. I also haven't looked at later versions,
including the one shipped with Office 2003 - maybe it has been updated.
- Chris
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