Re: How is glyph shaping done?

2003-02-03 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
For information on how this is handled on Mac OS, please see: http://developer.apple.com/fonts/ Deborah Goldsmith Manager, Fonts & Unicode Apple Computer, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 11:03 AM, John Hudson wrote: On Windows, the shaping engines for complex scripts ar

Re: How is glyph shaping done?

2003-01-31 Thread John Hudson
At 09:28 AM 1/31/2003, Mete Kural wrote: So does this mean that every character rendered on the screen in a Unicode-enabled program such as Internet Explorer or some editor, have a corresponding presentation form Unicode associated to it? No. Most complex script shaping is now handled by a comb

Re: How is glyph shaping done?

2003-01-31 Thread Rick McGowan
Mete Kural asked: > when a Unicode rendering program is doing > glyph shaping for Arabic (or any other language with > similar properties), would the program first convert > all Unicode Arabic characters in the 06XX domain into > Arabic presentation forms in the FXXX domain, and then > render each

How is glyph shaping done?

2003-01-31 Thread Mete Kural
Hello, After one of the replies that I received for my previous question, I thought of a more general question about how glyph shaping is done. I'm just wondering, when a Unicode rendering program is doing glyph shaping for Arabic (or any other language with similar properties), would the program