On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 08:45 +0600, Christopher Fynn wrote: > Hi Behdad > > Same problem Mathieu mentions is there with the combined Tibetan script > mark characters > U+0F73, U+0F76, U+0F77, U+0F78, U+0F79 & U+0F81. These need *decomposing* > into two or more characters so that the individual glyph elements can be > separately positioned above > and below the base glyph which may consist of one or more consonants and > so, in Tibetan, is of > variable height. Isn't that just the bug I mentioned already: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385168 behdad > - Chris > > > > > Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 20:34 +0700, Mathieu Pellerin wrote: > > > >> Greetings, > >> > >> I was wondering if the Pango developers have an ETA on a > >> yet-to-be-supported feature that, lacking the proper technical term, I > >> would define as 'unicode combined char'. > >> > >> For example, the unicode character U+17FE, a Khmer vowel. You can > >> reconstitute the vowel using two other unicode character (U+17C4 and > >> U+17C7) hence me labeling it 'unicode combined char'. > >> > > > > According to my Unicode 5.0 data files, there is no such character as U > > +17FE. > > > > > >> I'm not sure how it'd affect other languages, but for Khmer while it's > >> not critical, it would certainly be a time saver. > >> > > > > While Pango can be smarter about canonically equivalent Unicode > > sequences, the fonts can help too, by correctly populating their 'ccmp' > > OpenType feature. That currently doesn't work for Khmer though: > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385168 > > > > If you let me know more about your situation (are you designing a font? > > Did you really mean the nonexistent U+17FE? etc.) I may better help. > > > > > >> Matt > >> > > > > > -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
