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Re: Separate language codes for different Englishes
Or compromise. 'Purity' cuts both ways. On the digital text processing vs typography front, I've come to the conclusion that getting the right characters in the string is the sine qua non of accurate…5 -
Re: Separate language codes for different Englishes
Lots of scripts had varieties of standard, pseudo-standard, and non-standard character encoding schemes pre-Unicode. So? Mixing character space and glyph space was a bad idea then as now, as Adobe ex…1 -
Re: Separate language codes for different Englishes
Hrant, you seem to be wilfully ignoring the point, which is not about hacking vs twiddling thumbs, but about where to hack. Armenian text processing pre-Unicode involved using the same 8-bit codes as…3 -
Re: Separate language codes for different Englishes
Don't try to solve character-level problems at the glyph level.8 -
Re: [OTVar] Next step for variable fonts: process for registering design variation axes
The Width axis typically affects all horizontal aspects of the glyph proportionally, while the Extension axis (I'd prefer the name Elongation) will often only affect the horizontal length of part of …2
