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Re: Application side character compositing: a + dieresis → adieresis
We should be careful to distinguish what happens in text normalisation (encoding) from what happens in display (layout engines and fonts). Software needs to be able to handle both NFC and NFD text st…1 -
Re: Question on black lcaron & dcaron designs
I should also add napostrophe to the list, although it is used by a different language /napostrophe/ should be no different from kerned ’n sequence. It's just a legacy ISO 6937 telecommunication…3 -
Re: Alternate numerals in script fonts
I reason that the eye/brain only gets enough information from each “grab” (between saccades) as is necessary to identify characters/words. Subtle differences in execution of individual characters wou…1 -
Re: 1000 em units?
This is the model we use to obtain compatible metrics. Pablo's option 2 works, but I figure the linegap data fields are there, so why not use them. This is how Mike Duggan at Microsoft requested…4 -
Re: Vietnamese with combined diacritical marks
Vietnamese text almost always uses the precomposed diacritics, and even if the text is decomposed -- e.g. Unicode normalisation form D -- it is easiest to represent with the precomposed glyphs via th…1
