From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 16:33:47 EST
At 12:44 -0800 2003-12-03, John Hudson wrote:
>At 04:30 AM 12/3/2003, Peter Kirk wrote:
>
>>An adequate proposal for a complex script should surely include a
>>proper account of the script behaviour and sample glyphs of
>>presentation forms. And so such a proposal should include all that
>>is needed for a developer, and is available some time before the
>>new script is officially standardised.
>
>I disagree. What you describe may be desirable, but in no way is it
>necessary. What is important to document in a proposal is what is
>necessary to *encode* text, not to display it. Remember that a lot
>of work was done on encoding complex scripts in Unicode before there
>were adequate font and shaping engine technologies in place to
>implement the character/glyph model as envisaged.
John is absolutely right.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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