On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:06:23PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > I am beginning to think that the responsibility for correct > "combining accents" behaviour rests primarily with the rendering > engine, rather than with the fonts. The fonts must, of course, > include the combining accents, otherwise the accents will be > borrowed from other fonts; but I doubt that they really need > anchors or GPOS. > > E.g. say I am a rendering engine; I see a character which, from > its Unicode range, is either > > -- a "top" accent > -- a "bottom" accent > [-- a left accent if such things exist, a right accent, etc.,]
In Hebrew, a dagesh is a dot centered in the glyph to double the consonant or change the pronunciation. The precise place where it should go must be indicated by the font. If one just centers a dot in the same area, it may well be (and in practice, in my Java experiments, is) invisible because it overlaps part of the glyph. Andries -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
