[XeTeX] OpenType: script & language

[Jonathan Kew]

On 1 Mar 2005, at 2:29 pm, Will Robertson wrote:

> On 2 Mar 2005, at 12:22 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>> [a long and informative explanation]
>> Hope this is helpful,
>
> Yes, very!
> That all makes perfect sense.
>
> So at this stage, do you think it would be helpful to define 40 script 
> names and 382 language names for easy access via fontspec? Or is the 
> underlying support simply not there yet?

Well, I suppose there's no compelling reason not to....except for the 
bloat! But there's also very little benefit, given how few of these are 
currently supported by any real fonts out there. Turkish, Vietnamese, 
Romanian, Persian, Urdu, Simplified vs Traditional Chinese... can't 
think of many other instances where I'm aware that people have actually 
built fonts with language-specific rendering. I expect there are a few 
more, but out of 382 it's not many that are actually useful!

JK