From: Damon Anderson (damon@corigo.com)
Date: Thu Jun 04 2009 - 02:20:24 CDT
Having the pre-composed characters is a boon, and I would hope that UniKey
is defaulting to precomposed specifically to avoid rendering issues. I've
tried dozens of times to find a way to analyze the output from Unikey and
from the more popular (but not free/open) Vietkey, but I have yet to find
a decent text editor that allows me to view the actual encoding.
Any suggestions on a tool that I can type into on Windows and then display
the actual UTF-8 encoding?
-Damon
P.S. Also for all you Vietnamese/Linux/Unicode buffs out there... Any
pointers on how to getting SKIM to actual work? I have to run a windows VM
just to type Vietnamese currently.
On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:29:42 +0700, Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org> wrote:
> Vietnamese, by my calculation, ranks 7th in number of native speakers
> among languages primarily written in the Latin script. It has more
> native speakers than Italian or Turkish or Polish, more than twice as
> many as Romanian.
>
> It is not unusual to see Vietnamese coded with at least some combination
> of combining marks, not strictly in NFC.
>
> I understand that it is difficult, in general, to get combining-mark
> rendering to work properly in fonts and rendering engines. I hope
> efforts are ongoing in the industry to improve this state of affairs and
> not continue to rely solely on precomposed characters, particularly for
> this widely used Latin-script language.
>
> --
> Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14
> http://www.ewellic.org
> http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html
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>
>
-- Damon Anderson, Business Director Mobile: +84 90 834-2421 Email: damon@corigo.com Corigo Vietnam 391B Ly Thuong Kiet Street Ward 9, Tan Binh District Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam http://www.corigo.com
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