This is great new, I just finish to install Jaguar and it seems
promising. I just found a little bug :
Lucida Grande which has the Hebrew (Yiddish) character HEBREW LIGATURE
YIDDISH VAV YOD - 05F1 bad written, you read yod vav and you should read
(from left to right) vav yod (like the name says), the bug was in the
Unicode 2.0 book and is corrected now in the pdf from the Unicode site.
(and it(s nice to see that Lucida Grande has cantilations marks but why
the four Apple fonts (New Peninim, Raanana, Arial and Corsiva are not
updated ? and no font has the Alef Lamed ligature FB4F)
I'm waiting for the documentation for keyboards, is there a plan to
include in the develloper tools a tool like Resedit for X to edit the
keyboards ?
Bertrand Laidain
>As promised, here is a very quick summary of the high points (as best I
>can remember without my reference materials at hand):
>
>1. Keyboard Layouts
>
>- Keyboards may be installed by dragging in the Finder to
>/Library/Keyboard Layouts/, ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/, or
>/Network/Library/Keyboard Layouts/, then logging out and logging back
>in.
>
>- Formats supported include plain resource files with KCHR and uchr
>resources, bundled packages with KCHR and uchr resources that allow
>keyboard names to be multi-localized, a new XML text file keyboard
>format (equivalent to the uchr) which can be edited with any XML or
>text editor, and a bundle version of the XML format.
>
>Documentation on both the above points will be in a forthcoming tech
>note; unfortunately, it's not posted yet, as our developer support
>staff is very busy getting all the 10.2 tech notes ready for posting.
>Until then, if you have 10.2 you can look at /System/Library/Keyboard
>Layouts/ for examples of how the new support works.
>
>- A large number of new Unicode keyboard layouts are included, among
>which are Arabic, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Devanagari, Greek, Turkish,
>Icelandic, and several others.
>
>2. Fonts
>
>New fonts include:
>
>- A new Roman font family, Cochin
>- A collection of five new, high-quality TrueType fonts to support the
>Chinese GB 18030 standard, each of which has over 31,000 glyphs
>(including all of UniHan on plane 0, Yi, and partial support for
>Tibetan and Mongolian)
>- Fonts to support Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati,
>Gurmukhi, Polytonic Greek, and Thai (some of these are optional
>installs)
>
>The Central European versions of Times, Helvetica, etc. have been
>merged into their Roman counterparts and support both script systems.
>These fonts appear as a single unified font to Unicode applications
>(e.g., Times) and as two fonts to QuickDraw applications (e.g., Times
>and Times CE).
>
>Note that the only scripts supported via WorldScript and QuickDraw are
>MacRoman, MacJapanese, MacSimplifiedChinese, MacTraditionalChinese,
>MacKorean, MacCentralEuropean, and MacCyrillic. All other scripts are
>supported via Unicode only.
>
>Many other fonts were updated as well.
>
>3. Unicode
>
>Support for text in bidirectional and complex writing systems (e.g.
>reordering) is now available in all Unicode applications, including
>Cocoa applications. You can now send and receive mail in Arabic,
>Devanagari, etc. using Apple's Mail application.
>
>Since both keyboards and fonts can be dropped in, and shaping behavior
>can be supported via a "morx" table in a font, it's now possible to
>drop in the ability to support Unicode text in a new language by adding
>a keyboard and a font.
>
>On the other hand, the system will now support the most common shaping
>behaviors (e.g., support for Latin combining accents or combining
>Japanese voice marks) without requiring the addition of tables to a
>font.
>
>Collation, word break, and so on has been updated to Unicode 3.2 data.
>The Mac OS Extended (HFS+) file system now follows Unicode 3.2
>decomposition behavior (in previous systems it was frozen at Unicode
>2.1).
>
>Both Cocoa and Carbon APIs now support the creation of fully composed
>Unicode as well as fully decomposed Unicode (the canonical normalized
>forms).
>
>4. Character Palette
>
>There is a new character palette which provides easy access to
>characters from any part of Unicode. It's available to both Unicode and
>non-Unicode applications, though of course only a subset of characters
>can be entered in non-Unicode applications. The palette is available
>independent of which keyboard or input method is selected.
>
>5. Updated Japanese input method
>
>Apple's input method, Koteri, has new features and improved conversion
>accuracy.
>
>I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but these are most of the high
>points. I believe all these statements are accurate, but it's Saturday
>morning and I've been on vacation for a week. :-)
>
>Deborah Goldsmith
>Manager, Fonts & Unicode
>Apple Computer, Inc.
>goldsmit@apple.com
>
>
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