From: Andrew C. West (andrewcwest@alumni.princeton.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 07:17:24 EST
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 04:09:57 -0800 (PST), jameskass@att.net wrote:
> As long as Unicode is obtaining this information, it would be helpful
> if it could be published.
I agree with James and William that it would be extremely helpful to font
designers and others to have free access to information about the glyph
repertoires of certain scripts from the Unicode Web site.
Such information is already available for some scripts. For example, the
quasi-official document "Traditional Mongolian Script in the ISO/IEC 19646 and
Unicode Standards" (UNU/IIST Report No. 170) provides charts of all positional
variants and ligatures in the Mongolian block, which is very helpful indeed
(although the assignment of these glyphs to PUA codepoints is rather unhelpful).
Likewise, the list of precomposed Tibetan characters given in the PRC's recent
BrdaRten proposal is actually a very useful list of the complex glyphs that
anyone designing a Tibetan font should aim to cover in addition to the simple
glyphs shown in the Unicode code charts.
A central repository of such information would be most welcome.
Andrew
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