RE: Multiple script Handling (kanji - kana)

From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 04:29:07 EST


Stefan Persson wrote:
> From: "Marco Cimarosti" <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it>
> > U+FFF9 (INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION ANCHOR)
> > U+FFFA (INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION SEPARATOR)
> > U+FFFB (INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION TERMINATOR)
> >
> > The format of a word with furigana should be:
> >
> > U+FFF9 kanji(s) U+FFFA hiragana(s) U+FFFB
>
> Do you know any font that supports these characters?

I know none, personally.

Beside that, my impression is that furigana is top complex a thing to be
implemented inside the fonts. I think that even current font technologies
such as OpenType are not suited to implement such a complex formatting.

But font specialists might contradict me.

_ Marco



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