From: Vinod Kumar (rigvinod@gmail.com)
Date: Fri May 30 2008 - 03:17:53 CDT
Yes the ISFOC (not IFSOC) is an 8 bit encoding for decomposed glyph
components. For example, ISFOC does not have a code for Letter PA. It has
Half-PA and a vertical stem. The full PA is made up by juxtaposing the
Half-PA and the stem. I believe that C-DAC has used the ISFOC to generate
shaping components for Unicode to work on ISFOC fonts. Use of Unicode along
with a simple transformer to ISFOC can be followed by a font that
supports ISFOC in its charmap offers a light weight solution to mobile
platforms.
Hope that the rumours are scotched.
On 5/30/08, mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp <mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp> wrote:
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>
> Also I've ever heard of IFSOC, a project in C-DAC to standardize
> glyph collection for the text rendering system without intelligent
> glyph shaping feature. Some rumours told that it was not
> a collection of precomposed ligatures but of decomposed glyph
> components (to fit 8bit character encoding - possibly 16bit
> character encoding is inappropriate to the target of IFSOC).
>
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
>
>
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