Re: OT and combining diacritics (was Re: Representative glyphs for combining kannada signs)

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@icu-project.org)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2006 - 09:45:23 CST

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    Very nice: and that will eliminate one possibility for spoofing (as long
    as those fonts are used). (I'm giving a talk on Unicode Security today,
    so that comes at an opportune moment!).

    Mark

    Peter Constable wrote:
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    > > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
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    > > Behalf Of Andrew Cunningham
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    > > Actually, there are a small number of OT fonts that support combining
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    > > diacritic combinations very well, assuming your application is using
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    > > an appropriate version of Uniscribe. We work with OT fonts everyday
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    > > with African languages requiring use of combining diacritics and
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    > > diacritic stacking.
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    > Windows users that need support for combining diacritics will be
    > please to find that all of the core fonts in Vista (Arial, Times New
    > Roman, Tahoma, Microsoft Sans Serif, Segoe UI) have been updated to
    > support arbitrary base-mark combinations and diacritic stacking for
    > Latin script, with full Unicode 4.1 coverage.
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    > E.g. this screen shot of Segoe UI:
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    > Peter Constable
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