On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Harshula <harsh...@gmail.com> wrote: > syllabic ...
Not a bad idea at all. I support syllabic. But clarify -- isn't Arabic etc syllabic? I heard even sometimes Arabic uses diacritics on consonants to indicate vowels a la abugidas. Perhaps southasian might be OK as I think the scripts under question here are the same as those Unicode classifies under "South Asian" and "South East Asian" at http://www.unicode.org/charts/. South East Asian could be subsumed under South Asian, I think that should not be a problem. Just "asian" would include Han etc too which I guess is not right. So "asiansyllabic" would exclude the ideographic/logographic scripts and restrict to the abugidas. Either "asiansyllabic", or "syllabic" if Arabic is not considered syllabic, would do. BTW where does Hebrew go in? And where would Kharoshthi (an RTL abugida, extinct for quite some time but potential to include in the distant future) go in? -- Shriramana Sharma _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list HarfBuzz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
