Re: N4106

2011-11-07 Thread Szelp A. Szabolcs
I welcome that finally the combining parentheses are encoded as such, and not by precomposed diacritics, especially, as I had evidence for 8-10 additional parenthesed diacritics (of course from linguistic material, where else from!) to those presented in the earlier Teuthonista proposals. I was

Re: N4106

2011-11-07 Thread vanisaac
From: Kent Karlsson kent.karlsson14_at_telia.com Den 2011-11-05 04:23, skrev António Martins-Tuválkin tuvalkin_at_gmail.com: I'm going through N4106 ( http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4106.pdf ), ... I see the following characters being put forward for proposing to be encoded:

Re: N4106

2011-11-07 Thread Kent Karlsson
Den 2011-11-07 10:34, skrev vanis...@boil.afraid.org vanis...@boil.afraid.org: So despite being given (as proposed) vanilla above/below mark properties, they do not stack the way such characters normally do, but is supposed to invoke an entirely new behaviour. I agree, except that if we

Re: [indic] Re: Lack of Complex script rendering support on Android

2011-11-07 Thread anbu
Hi! Unicode List Code2000 supports most BMP code points of Unicode 5.2. It is open sourced from September: http://code2000.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Anbu7 On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 13:45:47 +0600, Christopher Fynn chris.f...@gmail.com wrote: Hard to keep track of these things - but shouldn't affect

Re: [indic] Re: Lack of Complex script rendering support on Android

2011-11-07 Thread Ed Trager
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Christopher Fynn chris.f...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 November 2011 15:33, Mahesh T. Pai paiva...@gmail.com wrote: ... You can update the firmware yourselves - go the custom ROM way. (errr... I am afraid the carriers' representatives may do something to me for

Code2000 on SourceForge (was Re: [indic] Re: Lack of Complex script rendering support on Android)

2011-11-07 Thread Andrew West
On 7 November 2011 08:34, a...@peoplestring.com wrote: Code2000 supports most BMP code points of Unicode 5.2. It is open sourced from September: http://code2000.sourceforge.net/ I have doubts as to whether this project was actually created by James Kass. The project comprises the last

Re: [indic] Re: Lack of Complex script rendering support on Android

2011-11-07 Thread Andrew Cunningham
I'd agree with Ed, its a broader problem than just India, and a problem not just based on market segments. I use Android devices often, but can not use them as a serious tool for work because of what I would classify as serious limitations in the OS and its internationalisation model. At moment

Re: [indic] Re: Lack of Complex script rendering support on Android

2011-11-07 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Ed Trager said on Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 11:11:19AM -0500,: Not just if you buy a phone in India. In this modern world, there are plenty of students and immigrants all over the world who might enjoy communicating with their friends and families in their native languages. So I would

Re: N4106

2011-11-07 Thread Szelp A. Szabolcs
If I were designing a font, I would simply make the in/out mark attachment point near the top/middle of the parentheses, so that it drops down around the base mark, and then attaches any subsequent marks as if the parentheses weren't there. I think you're making this too complicated.

Re: [indic] Re: Lack of Complex script rendering support on Android

2011-11-07 Thread Ed Trager
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Mahesh T. Pai paiva...@gmail.com wrote: ... To be fair, when I flash one of the EU firmwares on my Android device, it boots up into Russian. I tried the Asian firmwares, only once - and it booted up into Chinese/ Korean / Japanese / one of those East Asian