Quoting John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>:
>
> Although there has not been any official announcement from Microsoft,
> and
> no release date, my understanding is that 'generic' shaping is being
> added
> to Uniscribe. This includes support for diacritic composition using
> OpenType mark-to-base and mark-to-mark positioning lookups. The font
> support is already in place (see the OpenType specification v1.3,
> published
> last week, at http://www.microsoft.com/typography ), and the system
> support
> is on the way.
>
This is good news, whenever it does finally eventuate.
I'll look at the new spec.
Andrew Cunningham
Multilingual Technical Project Officer
Vicnet, State Library of Victoria
andrewc@vicnet.net.au
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