On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:27:01 +1100, Harshula <hash@???> 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
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