On ੨੩-੦੭-੨੦੦੮, at ੦੩:੩੬ ਸਵੇਰੇ, Sukhjinder Sidhu wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > I'm currently talking to a developer at Apple to highlight problems > with Gurmukhi support on the Mac. I've highlighted the issues > below, but if you have anything to add, please let me know. > Especially concerned with locale issues (stuff like day + month > names that still haven't been fixedin CDLR). > CDLR is bad to fix it, I tried many time to update, but no result after all:-( > > My initial list of issues is this: > > * Gurmukhi MT (GMT) appears to be a font of very poor quality on my > screen, especially at smaller text sizes, although this is a > cosmetic issue and doesn't affect functionality. Windows' Raavi > font is a quite substantially better font. > > * GMT is missing 0A33 (LLA), 0A01 (Adak Bindi) and 0A03 (Visarga), > which have been in Unicode for a number of years now - especially LLA. > > * GMT is also now missing 0A51 (Udaat) and 0A75 (Yakash) added in > Unicode 5.1. > > * GMT does not include the full set of conjuncts specified on > Unicode 5.0 Ch09 p319. > > * Dda (ਡ) + Nukta is converted to Rra (ੜ), and Ddha (ਢ) + Nukta > is converted to Rrha (ੜ੍ਹ). These are incorrect conversions > and are probably a reminant of the ISCII standard used in > MacGurmukhi. The two sequences are not canonically equivalent in > the Unicode standard, and as such, the conversion should be removed. > > * The ATSUI rendering engine does not specifically prevent incorrect > independent vowel signs and vowel sign sequences as specified in > Unicode 5.0 Ch09 p318. > > * ATSUI does not prevent the incorrect placement of vowel signs, or > the doubling up of vowel signs like Uniscribe does. For example: ਿ > + ਰ (ਿਰ) is the same as ਰ + ਿ (ਰਿ) visually on a Mac. > This is extremely problematic because classic font-based Gurmukhi is > typed the first way, although in Unicode, only the second sequence > is really considered valid. The first sequence will show with a > dotted circle in Linux/Windows. > I filed this issue to Apple bug application, but yet not got any reply Issue: 6030773 (https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa/56/wo/j2yqG6pDNtCl6I1QonbN9w/4.57.20.0.3 ) > * The QWERTY Gurmukhi keyboard appears to be missing Dda (ਡ) and > Ddha (ਢ)! what about Updated Layout (Refined Inscript) Layut - aka Jhelum to include in Mac? Thanks Aman http://alamwalia.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Punjabi-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/punjabi-users
