Re: Character Identity and Font Selection

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Jun 09 2011 - 10:47:12 CDT

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    On 9 Jun 2011, at 17:14, André Szabolcs Szelp wrote:

    > Treating IPA and other transcription systems as a separate script from Latin would make for a lot of headaches in text conversion.
    >
    > Could you elaborate on that?

    It *isn't* a separate script from Latin. Really, Szabi, people have asked for a separate script tag a number of times and they've been denied it. What they should use is Latn-fonipa. That's the right tag to use.

    Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/



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