Re: Printing and Displaying Dependent Vowels

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Mon Mar 29 2004 - 08:09:11 EST

  • Next message: Antoine Leca: "Re: Printing and Displaying Dependent Vowels"

    On 29/03/2004 04:14, John Cowan wrote:

    >Antoine Leca scripsit:
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    >>In the general case of a font intended for general use, and if the rendering
    >>without the circle is intended in special cases like drawing a keyboard
    >>layout for reference, I still believe it is better to have the circle and
    >>resort to special manipulations, like SP+ZWJ+vowel or drawing directly with
    >>ExtTextOut(ETO_GLYPH_INDEX), in order to draw the keyboard layout.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >The bottom line is that SP+vowel and NBSP+vowel are prescribed by the
    >Unicode Standard, and if they don't work (at least the former; for the
    >latter, one can weasel out by claiming conformity with earlier versions
    >of the Standard) the system is broken.
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    >
    >
    I agree that this implies that the system is not conformant with the
    standard. But that could be because the standard is broken. So perhaps
    it is the standard that should be fixed, by specifiying a new preferred
    sequence for isolated combining marks.

    I realise that for backward compatibility reasons the old encoding
    cannot be made illegal. But it can be deprecated, and a note can be
    added that this sequence may not always be displayed as preferred.

    -- 
    Peter Kirk
    peter@qaya.org (personal)
    peterkirk@qaya.org (work)
    http://www.qaya.org/
    


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