Re: [gtk-i18n-list] Which Non-Latin Scripts Do Free Software Fonts Not Cover?

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 18:44 +0900, mpsuzuki hiroshima-u ac jp wrote:
> 
> A typical example might be N'Ko script. Pango already
> includes a module to layout N'Ko script by OpenType font.
> But Microsoft does not provide any specification for OpenType
> table design to support N'Ko script. So, there is a
> possibility that Microsoft can define incompatible "official"
> N'Ko support in future and "official" N'Ko fonts doesn't
> work well with current Pango implementation (and current
> N'Ko OpenType fonts doesn't work well in future Microsoft
> products). ICU does not support N'Ko script yet by such
> reason, please check:
>         http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/5865
> How do you think of? 

IMO it's very obvious that if/when Microsoft supports N'Ko at some
point, it will be using the Arabic model, and that's what Pango does.
In fact, N'Ko was added to Pango simply by extending the Arabic joining
tables to include N'Ko characters and no change to the shaper code at
all.


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