On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:27:01 +1100, Harshula wrote: > > I don't like the idea of removing this information, touching Vs > conjunct, from the encoding and putting it at a higher level. Here's my > reason, a Sinhala expert is writing an electronic (unicode) document on > the correct and incorrect usage of touching consonants and conjunct > consonants. If the encoding is identical, how does this expert encode > the incorrect usage in the document? I agree that we shouldn't bring spellings into the rendering level. What I mean is that there is no way of forming a conjunct of "ss", but they can only be touched. > Actually, if a font doesn't render touching letters, then the best thing > is for the font to fall back to rendering consonant al-lakuna consonant. > Which is what I think it does at the moment? The problem there is that there will definitely glyphs for consonent + al-lakuna combinations, but not for consonent + ZWJ + al-lakuna combination. When there is a consonent + al-lakuna + ZWJ + consonent combination and no glyph is available, the rendering engine will still display consonent + al-lakuna as a single glyph. Anuradha -- http://www.linux.lk/~anuradha/ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Sinhala mailing list Sinhala@linux.lk https://secure.linux.lk/mailman/listinfo/sinhala