From: Peter Jacobi (peter_jacobi@gmx.net)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 13:16:17 EST
Dear All,
I find it rather disappointing, that the the question of coloring
the horizontal line of 't' attracts more attention, than the
original question.
To re-iterate - in the original post, the string in question did
consist of side by side characters, not ligated in any font known
to me. And the legacy Tamil enocings have for obvious reasons no
problem to style any single character.
So, to promote Unicode usage, in a community, which partly sees
ISCII unification as a conspiracy against the Dravidian languages,
it would be very helpful to demonstrate, that everything that can
be done with the legacy encodings, can also be done using Unicode.
The most useful answers so far, were the assertions by Jungshik, Bruno
and others, that the markup in
http://www.jodelpeter.de/i18n/tamil/markup-uc.htm
should be considered correct and, in an ideal user agent,
render like the the TSCII encoded
http://www.jodelpeter.de/i18n/tamil/markup-tscii.htm
But I also assume, that ideal and reality will not match for years to come.
It would be most interesting, if someone can point out a wordprocessor
or even a rendering library (shouldn't Pango be the solution to
everything?),
which enables styling of individual Tamil letters.
Regards,
Peter Jacobi
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