Re: Combining characters



On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 04:48, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 18:16, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> > >>>>> "Owen" == Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes:
> > 
> > >> Now, if I want to render the composite character 4001+4010, how
> > >> should I proceed?  Is there a way to map unicode sequences to
> > >> actual (physical) fonts.  Prefarably in the form:
> > 
> > Owen> Not really sure what you are asking - maybe you can be less
> > Owen> hypothetical?
> > 
> > He wants to be able to use a font like the muleiap-1 fonts to display
> > such combining sequences.
> > 
> > (muleipa-1 also has tilda'ed versions of latin small letter alpha,
> > latin small letter open o and latin small ligature oe that are also
> > not precomposed in unicode.)
> > 
> > (NB that muleipa-1 was just the first example I thought of; it is
> > probably not the one the OP is using, merely similar.)
> 
> There is no problem with these type of thing. Generally, what you
> do with TrueType fonts, is that you simply don't put such glyphs
> in the encoding vector. It's also possible to put them in the
> private use area.

Ok.  Once I _have_ those glyphs embedded into a font and numbered them
in a non-conflicting way in a private use area (may be this is not
really necessary), how can I go about mapping unicode sequences to those
glyphs.  Do I have to write a shaper myself, or is there a generic
shaper at X/Gtk/pango layers which can be configured using some kind of
map files?

Thanks for the quick replies.

	Anuradha

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