Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com wrote:
>
> Antoine Leca wrote:
> > Jim Hargrave wrote:
> > ...
> > > If not, is it possible to convert these ISFOC "font codes"
> > directly to/from Unicode?
> >
> > Yes, but that is horribly complex [...]
>
> It is indeed complicated, but not more than an Indic rendering engine.
No real experience in it to exactly tell, but yes I believe that
is in the same range of complication.
> It is, in fact, the reverse process of an Unicode Indic rendering engine:
> converting from glyphs (and visual order) to logical characters (and
> phonetic order).
Yes.
> Antoine Leca wrote privately (but allowing me to publish):
> > > 2) Are Indic keyboard character-oriented or glyph oriented?
> > Both exist; I believe the former are called "phonetic".
>
> Thus: also visual-order input methods require a similar "de-rendering"
> algorithm.
You are quite right, I was overlooking that point.
Antoine
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Tue Jul 10 2001 - 17:21:02 EDT