[XeTeX] Uppercase in Armenian

[Zdenek Wagner]

Hi all,

as I wrote, my knowledge is based just on facebook and youtube and
texts and videos on Omniglot. I can send you exact links to youtube
videos but you should be fast, it is displayed for a second or two. I
think that the Eastern variant (Արևելահայերեն) is used in Armenia and
the decomposition of 0587 should be <0565, 057E>. I know nothing about
other variants.

Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml

ne 1. 5. 2022 v 14:17 odesílatel Joseph Wright
<joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk> napsal:
>
> On 01/05/2022 13:10, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> > Hi Zdeněk,
> >
> > Checking the Unicode character database[1], U+0587 is listed as having a
> > *compatibility* decomposition to <0565,0582> (not 0587):
> >
> > 0587;ARMENIAN SMALL LIGATURE ECH YIWN;Ll;0;L;<compat> 0565 0582;;;;N;;;;;
> >
> > Likewise, the SpecialCasing.txt file[2] that defines case mappings other
> > than simple 1:1 substitutions shows the same decomposition for the
> > uppercase form:
> >
> > 0587; 0587; 0535 0582; 0535 0552; # ARMENIAN SMALL LIGATURE ECH YIWN
> >
> > So if I understand correctly, what \text_uppercase:n is doing is simply
> > implementing what the Unicode standard defines.
> >
> > If this isn't the appropriate behavior, at least for some locales, I
> > believe that will need custom programming at some level, but I don't
> > know enough about it to get into any details.
>
> Indeed: we will add support for alternative casing for Arminian to
> \text_uppercase:nn shortly.
>
> Joseph