On 10/21/97 9:16 AM, Mark Liberman (myl@unagi.cis.upenn.edu) wrote:
>As far as I know, no major-vendor unicode-aware software now includes
>a general "rendering engine" capable of handling the character
>composition needs of scripts with non-trivial composed characters
>(where "trivial" composed characters are the ones that work by just
>assigning font widths appropriately).
>
>Furthermore, I don't know of any scheduled major-vendor products that
>will have such general Unicode rendering capability, or even any
>announced development effort along these lines.
QuickDraw GX has a general rendering engine that can handle all the
non-trivial scripts (including Malayalam) and has been available on the
Macintosh since 1994.
Apple is currently working on Unicode Imaging Services, which will be
released next year as a core component of the next major upgrade of the
MacOS. UIS incorporates QuickDraw GX typography and will therefore have
such a rendering engine.
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John H. Jenkins
jenkins@apple.com
tseng@blueneptune.com
http://www.blueneptune.com/~tseng
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