From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 18:29:29 EST
On 03/12/2003 13:03, jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote:
>Christopher John Fynn scripsit:
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>>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.
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>In any case that information is language-specific, not merely script-specific.
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Surely if shaping, presentation form etc information is to be encoded in
a font or rendering mechanism at all, it must be script-specific not
language-specific. That is one reason why there are quite a number of
Persian, Urdu etc variant characters in the Arabic script block - they
cannot be unified with the otherwise identical Arabic characters because
they have different shaping behaviour.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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