--- Nicholas Bodley <nbodley@...> wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:05:39 -0000, Richard
> Wordingham
> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
>
> > On the topic of fonts, I was flabbergasted to
> discover that the Khmer
> > alphabet in Unicode needed a very recent version
> of Uniscribe to work in
> > any reasonable fashion.
>
> {Dilettante warning!} :)
>
> As a dilettante student of Unicode, I think
> Uniscribe does the reordering;
> indeed, I'd expect Uniscribe to contain a
> considerable amount of code for
> handling writing-system-specific rendering. While
> just now, I must not try
> to find the pertinent text, it is online at
> Unicode.org. It's in the early
> part of the Unicode 4.0 book text.
>
> As I understand it, the font does not contain
> instructions for such
> matters as reordering, reshaping, and joining; those
> are the
> responsibility of the software that renders the
> text. I do recall that
> Unicode is clear about this matter.
>
> How I wish Linux had something like Uniscribe!

Linux does have something like Uniscribe. It's called
Pango and it lives at http://www.pango.org/

Sadly, it was quite a bit behind Uniscribe when I last
looked.

Andrew Dunbar.

> HTH, and a big apology if I mislead!
>
> --
> Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass.
> Yudit and SC Unipad: Two nice polylingual text
> editors
>

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