Re: [Silgraphite-devel] Re: Pango and SILGraphite was Re: Possible Pango 1.4 ideas

[ftang netscape com (Yung-Fong Tang)]

Dear Owen:
I pay a visit to SIL International last Monday to Wed. I have the same 
thought as you do before I pay the visit. And after I visit them and 
browse throguh their library, I totally change my mind. There are many 
many many many many many scripts that they are working on are not 
encoded into Unicode yet. And they are live scripts. The econmic return 
value of them could be small right now. But they are people using it 
(may not in computer yet).

If you don't believe it, pay a visit to Dallas to SIL and ask them to 
browse thorugh the books they have in their library.... You probably 
won't believe what you see there.

Owen Taylor wrote:

> To state something that may be a bit controversial, my opinion is that
> the set of "hard" scripts out there is pretty finite, and not going to
> go up in the future. Rather than trying to make it possible to handle
> arbitrary new scripts, I think time would be better spent creating the
> necessary specifications, fonts, and code to fit the dozen or so
> remaining complex scripts into OpenType.
>
> (The set of live scripts in Unicode that Pango doesn't handle for
> OpenType fonts, is, to my knowledge: Sinhala, Lao, Khmer, Mongolian,
> Tibetan, Syriac, Hanunoo, Buhid, Tagbanwa. As far as I know, the 
> set of arguably live complex scripts not yet encoded in Unicode is 
> pretty small too.)
>
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