From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
Date: Tue Dec 26 2006 - 19:57:24 CST
Michael Everson wrote:
> What doesn't work is fonts presenting users with decent glyph
> representation for accented Latin characters which are not precomposed
> in the standard.
There are various mechanisms in current font standards to represent combining mark encoded
diacritics, as either precomposed glyphs or, more flexibly, using dynamic mark
positioning. These mechanisms work and support for them in systems and applications is
steadily improving. The gaps in rendering support are mainly on the application end now,
with individual apps or customers failing to adequately implement support for these font
mechanisms.
John Hudson
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