“Programming” is a very broad term. Most programming languages these days support using Unicode in source text for string literals or identifies, even if the language keywords don’t require more than… (View Post)
Yes, Karsten picked up on the following paragraph which indicates what the processing model is. I'd still like to see things stated more clearly in the spec, though. (View Post)
Tamil script requires an OpenType Layout shaping engine, and the implementation may have a Tamil- or Indic-specific engine. It's possible that the shaping engine for Tamil doesn't support discretiona… (View Post)
I see various speculations here. Ray Larabie provided a relevant section from the MacOS EULA pertaining to fonts. For Windows, there's a fairly detailed FAQ addressing some questions here. (View Post)