Re: Hebrew Presentation Form in Pango Hebrew Engine

[dov imagic weizmann ac il]

Hi,

There was a discussion in the ivrix-list (Hebrew on Linux) about 
punctuation a few weeks ago. In one of the replies, Jonathan 
Rosenne wrote the following about the U+FB* characters:

    From: "Jonathan Rosenne" <rosenne qsm co il>
    To: "Ivrix Discussions" <ivrix-discuss ivrix org il>
    Subject: RE: Standard Hebrew Keyboard Layout
    Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 06:18:49 +0200

    Another matter: Please do not use the precomposed characters 
    FBxx, they are deprecated and not required to be supported.
     
    Jony

Thus it seems that using these is not really an option. The real
solution is to use kerning tables when ever these are available...

Btw, I am confused about something in the Hebrew renderer. When
referring to Unicode encoded font the characters seem to have a
constant 0x10000 added to them? Why is that and is it always happening?

Regards,
Dov

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:34:03AM -0700, Chookij Vanatham wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Dov,
> 
> I have just realized that we do have Hebrew Presentation form, U+FB1D - U+FB4F.
> I think that we should use them, particularly, those combinatin form with
> punctuation...
> 
> I'm thinking to change it. Let me know if you have any other reason/suggestion.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chookij V.
> 
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