[XeTeX] combining characters in isolation
David Perry
hospes.primus at verizon.net
Sun Jul 11 20:21:24 CEST 2010
Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
> David Perry wrote:
>
>> If a font is truly Unicode-compliant, then it should contain the
>> characters I used to test (or the ones you need).
>
> I'm not convinced this statement is true : it is my belief
> that a font can be "truly Unicode-compliant", yet still
> contain only a small fraction of the full set of glyphs
> in the Unicode standard.
Of course this is true; I did not mean to suggest that a
Unicode-compliant font would have all Unicode characters! (I, as a
sometime font developer, have no interest in creating ~65,000 characters
per font--actually, over a million now with the supplementary characters!)
What I meant, given the context of the messages, was: if a font is
intended to support Bengali--as I believe fonts that Mike was attempting
to use were--then it should have all the Bengali Unicode characters and
one should not get those blank boxes if one tries to display a character
from that range in a document. If it doesn't have all the Unicode
characters needed for a particular range, it's either a pre-Unicode font
or a badly constructed one. Change "Bengali" to whatever language you
need to work in at the moment.
David
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