To: Jungshik Shin From: John Cowan cowan(at)mercury.ccil.org Cc: unicode(at)unicode.org Received: (qmail 22885 invoked by uid 0); 12 Jul 2003 05:44:41 -0000 from unicode.org (209.235.17.55) by ns.need.bg with SMTP; 12 Jul 2003 05:44:41 -0000 from sarasvati.unicode.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by unicode.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h6C5bws14491; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:37:58 -0400 with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list unicode); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:37:58 -0400 (EDT) from mercury.ccil.org (mercury.ccil.org [192.190.237.100]) by unicode.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h6C5bvs14485 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:37:57 -0400 from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19bD1U-0000Ub-00; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:34:16 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:34:16 -0400 ContentType: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Combining diacriticals and Cyrillic Body: Jungshik Shin scripsit: > > I don't know why UniScribe is not always installed by default, > > as it is also useful for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic (the regional > > Add Korean to the list. After making a Korean opentype font, > I was confused because it worked fine inside font editing tools, > but it didn't work with MS IE and Mozilla under Win2k (although I > had heard that Korean OTFs shipped with Korean version of MS Office > XP worked well with MS IE.). MS products have yet to recognize that Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic are complex-rendering scripts. > > better named Support for text rendering using Unicode combining > > sequences, or just Support for UniScribe and OpenType fonts with > > This is a very good suggestion. Indeed. -- John Cowan jcowan(at)reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan Assent may be registered by a signature, a handshake, or a click of a computer mouse transmitted across the invisible ether of the Internet. Formality is not a requisite; any sign, symbol or action, or even willful inaction, as long as it is unequivocally referable to the promise, may create a contract. --_Specht v. Netscape_