From: Adam Twardoch (list.adam@twardoch.com)
Date: Tue Mar 24 2009 - 02:57:34 CST
Christopher Fynn wrote:
> Huh? - From what I've seen, most fonts for *complex scripts* (which is
> what I think we were talking about in this thread) still seem to be
> OpenType TT flavoured.
Complex scripts were not the primary issue here. The point I was trying
to make is that whenever someone says "Unicode compatibility", they
often mean something else: "global text support". Unicode/ISO 10646 is
one component, along with support of the OpenType/ISO 14496-22 font
format support (both flavors). Support for advanced layout, necessary
for complex scripts, and typically done through OpenType Layout (but
also by AAT and Graphite) is another requirement. Only a combination
As OpenOffice does not currently support one of the two OpenType flavors
at all, this presents a big obstacle in when it comes to global text
support. I did not say OpenOffice did not support PostScript-flavored
fonts for complex scripts, because that, indeed, would have been just a
nuisance since, as you point out, most complex-script fonts are released
in TrueType-flavored OpenType. But OpenOffice does not support
PostScript-flavored fonts at all, and those present the majority of
commercial fonts released today (albeit they mostly only cover the
Latin, Cyrillic and Greek alphabets to varying extent).
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