On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, John Cowan wrote:
> Michael Everson wrote:
>
> > I would be happy to put them in plane 17 or something so we could have a
> > unified glyph space (i.e. AFII) with permanent character-to-glyph mapping
> > vectors. That would be helpful to many font implementors.
>
> And as someone or other said a while back, it really is not necessary
> to unify glyph numbers and character numbers, any more than
> to unify character numbers and Internet addresses.
>
> --
> John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
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> Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
> -- Coleridge / Politzer
>
Tuesday, July 6, 1999
I'd like to hear more about cases where the character to glyph ratio is
1:Many so that extensive software is needed to examine the context and
determine which glyph is needed. This is true for Arabic and Indic
scripts; In Unicode(tm) there are many presentaion forms which may or may
not alleviate the situation, Indic as used here includes Tibetan, Sinhala
and several Southeast Asian scripts. Sorry if this too far out of scope
of 'dotless j". It's an area where more standardization seems diesrable
imho.
Regards,
Jim Agenbroad ( jage@LOC.gov )
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