On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> OK. But you won't implement Devanagari rendering with 32 glyphs...
If you want to render Devanagari, please use some other mechanisms, not
simple character streams. Change the internals to 32-bit, or keep other
things with the codepoints. Yes, almost everyone uses the "Arabic
Presentation Forms" blocks for Arabic shaping, but simply because people
are lazy. Do not use similiar ideas for Devanagari. This will also help
ease supporting the Arabic letters that do not have a shape in the
Presentation Forms.
And about surrogating the FDD0..FDEF pseudo-block, when you can have more
than a million characters using only 2048 codes (UTF-16), or more than
two billions with only 126 (10646 UTF-8), you can have as many as you like
with these 32.
--roozbeh
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