Re: Printing and Displaying Dependent Vowels

From: Antoine Leca (Antoine10646@leca-marti.org)
Date: Fri Mar 26 2004 - 15:06:38 EST

  • Next message: Philippe Verdy: "Re: What is the principle?"

    Philippe Verdy va escriure:
    >
    > Space is a base character, then it combines with the next diacritic
    > with which it creates a "default grapheme cluster" which should be
    > interpreted as if it was a single character identity.

    Agreed so far for diacritics. Agreed also for non-spacing dependent vowels
    like U+0BC0. Agreed for the special exceptions like u+0BBE. I disagree for
    U+093F or U+0BBF (Mc not included in Other_Grapheme_Extend, there is an
    allowed break before it), until there is something I missed here.

    > It is NOT defective.

    I do not understand. I did say anything implying that, did I? I just
    remarked that I was not able to fetch in the text of the standard some words
    to require from vendors and implementers (like I am) solid base to make them
    modify their engines to provide special exceptions to deal with the
    combination U+0020/U+00A0 then U+093F.

    And no, this is not the same as displaying a diacritic, because it should be
    re-ordered, rather than being a "spacing representation of diacritics".

    > Now how would you interpret differently SPACE+diacritic or
    > SPACE+vowel sign?

    See above.

    > If you display a dotted circle there, then you'll
    > display two separate glyphs for a single grapheme cluster, and this
    > is not intended by the normal Unicode character model.

    ?

    How do you believe anybody will show say u+0063 u+0300? Which font have this
    as a single glyph?

    Furthermore, a single character like U+0916 (Devanagari KHA) is very often
    rendered with two glyphs (namely, Half-Kha then the glyph also used for the
    AA-matra, U+093E). Unicode does not enter into knowing how does this stuff
    is handled.

    Antoine



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Mar 26 2004 - 16:57:16 EST