Re: Updated Hebrew Pango engine: GNOME CVS: pango chookij

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir technion ac il>]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Dov Grobgeld wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:16:18PM -0700, Chookij Vanatham wrote:
> >
> > Hi Dov,
> >
> > No, I don't mind the shape table name changed but usually, iso_8859_8
> > doesn't include any hebrew punctuation marks. That's the reason why I use
> > other name. I'll check more detail later.
>
> Actually, that's why I changed the name as all entries but the Hebrew
> letters were empty in the shaping table. I thought of adding entries
> for the Hebrew standard SI 1311-1 as described in
> http://www.qsm.co.il/NewHebrew/ab1.htm . But since no font is currently
> using it, and if creating new fonts it makes a lot more sense to use
> iso-10646, I guess there is no point.

Actually many fonts use it. The 'windows-1255' codepage includes them, and
thus fonts from microsoft tend to include them. Those fonts are actually
quite common.

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