Re: opentype features (ligatures)

[Christopher Fynn <cfynn gmx net>]

 Werner LEMBERG wrote:

...

>> Is there a way the ligature rendering feature could be "activated"
>> in pango?  In order for that to be possible, what information is
>> required about the script?

> Do you want to switch on and off a ligature feature explicitly?  Is
> this really necessary?  Normally, selecting the Mandombe language (in
> the font) should activate a set of `required' features.

It seems that Mandombe is a *script* of fairly recent origin designed 
for writing several central African languages. Until this script is 
encoded in the Unicode standard it may be difficult to get OpenType 
shaping engines like Pango to properly support it.

If Mfumu Kibatvuidi Nsiangani Ne Nlaza wants to see the Mandombe script, 
and languages written in this script, properly supported - IMO the first 
thing that needs doing is submitting a proposal to WG2 for encoding the 
Mandombe script in the iso 10646 & Unicode standards.

see: "Submitting New Characters or Scripts" 
<http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html>

- Chris