Christopher Fynn wrote:
The Transliteration feature types allows text is one format to be
displayed using another format. An example is taking a hiragana string
and displaying it as katakana. This is an exclusive feature type.
Currently defined selectors for this feature are:
o Hiragana to Katakana
o Katakana to Hiragana
o Kana to Romanization
o Romanization to Hiragana
o Romanization to Katakana
There is no one "right" way to perform these projections.
Also, they are not necessarily reflexive. (meaning they
lose information- you couldnt recover the original text
from the transformed text in some cases)
There is no way you could encode such information into a
font face itself by displaying alternate glyphs. Also, you
would not be able to unify Hiragana and Ro-maji pairs into
single codepoints. (ro-maji are context sensitive, for one
thing)
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