Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

From: James Kass (thunder-bird@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2007 - 16:44:42 CST

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    Kenneth Whistler wrote,

    > Translated, the combination of those two paragraphs means that
    > if you use IDS, you can't depend on anybody *else* to draw
    > a Han character for you -- nobody is required to do so, and
    > in fact the whole section is so hedged with the difficulties
    > and interpretative issues involved, that nobody is even
    > encouraged to do so.

    The whole section is so hedged with comments about maximum
    recursion levels and related concepts that it seems T.U.S.
    expects that some applications will do so.
     
    > But if you insist, the standard isn't going to say that you *cannot*
    > write an implementation to do so for your own edification -- you
    > "may" display an IDS as a constructed glyph.

    Leaving decisions about rendering to the people responsible
    for rendering strikes me as the best practice.

    Best regards,

    James Kass



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