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

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 07:58:39AM +0300, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:16:18PM -0700, Chookij Vanatham wrote:
> 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.

indeed it is the first time I hear of such font encoding.

There is however the Microsoft Windows font encoding CP1255;
it seems mostly compatible with the ST 1311-1, with those differances:

<U05F0>     /xd4         HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH DOUBLE VAV
<U05F1>     /xd5         HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH VAV YOD
<U05F2>     /xd6         HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH DOUBLE YOD
<U05F3>     /xd7         HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERESH
<U05F4>     /xd8         HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERSHAYIM

and various extra typographic chars.
The X11 font encoding name used by XFree86 for such fonts is 
"*-microsoft-cp1255"

it would be nice to add support for such fonts, as they are much better
than pure *-iso8859-8 ones.

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Pablo Saratxaga

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