Re: Using combining diacritical marks and non-zero joiners in a name

From: Andrew Cunningham (lang.support@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2008 - 08:57:27 CDT

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    This whole discussion seems to be going around in circles.

    If you have an OpenType, AAT or Graphite font with the appropriate
    tables and been designed to handle the combining diacritic and base
    character combination you're interested in

    AND

    A font rendering/text layout system that supports this

    AND

    An application that uses this font rendering/text layout system

    then everything displays fine.

    Generally, on Windows XPSP2, Windows Vista, and recent versions of
    Linux support combining diacritics.

    its usually a questions of either

    1) the font a web developer has chosen to display a page with is not
    appropriate, or

    2) in the absence of a specified font, the default browser font is
    inappropriate.

    In either case the end user can remedy the situation.

    Personally, having had to work with languages that need to use
    combining diacritics (and stack combining diacritics) , i.e. no
    precomposed characters available, I find the test page at
    http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/combining-marks.html fairly
    routine.

    basically with the right tools and fonts on an OS that supports
    combining diacritics things tend to go smoothly and display well.

    Andrew 

    -- 
Andrew Cunningham
Vicnet Research and Development Coordinator
State Library of Victoria
Australia
andrewc@vicnet.net.au
lang.support@gmail.com

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