I believe that ka.orth (Georgian) should not include the
range from U+10A0 to U+10C5,
Reasoning:
- Section 7.5 of the Unicode standard says:
Case Forms. The Georgian alphabet is fundamentally caseless and
is used as such in most texts. The scholar Akaki Shanidze
attempted to introduce a casing practice for Georgian in the
1950s, but it failed to gain popularity. In this typographic
departure, the Asomtavruli forms serve to represent uppercase
letters, while the lowercase is Mkhedruli or Nuskhuri. [...] The
Unicode encoding of Georgian follows the Latin analogy: The
range U+10A0..U+10CF is used to encode the uppercase capital
forms (Asomtavruli), and the basic alphabetic range
U+10D0..U+10FF may be regarded as lowercase (Mkhedruli or
Nuskhuri). [...]
- The font that Microsoft ships with Windows XP that covers
Georgian (SylfaenARM) includes only the lowercase forms, so
currently does not get picked up by ka.orth.
I'm sending this here, because if bugzilla is currently working on
fontconfig.org / freedesktop.org, I can't find it.
Regards,
Owen
--- fontconfig-2.2.1/fc-lang/ka.orth.georgian 2003-09-22
18:24:55.000000000 -0400
+++ fontconfig-2.2.1/fc-lang/ka.orth 2003-09-22 18:25:21.000000000 -0400
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
#
# Georgian (KA)
0589 # Armenian full stop (vertsaket)
-10a0-10c5
+#10a0-10c5 # capital letters, not used in normal writing
10d0-10f6
#10f7-10f8 # additional letters for Mingrelian and Svan
10fb
