Re: Implementation of ideographic description characters

2017-04-06 Thread Philippe Verdy
What is demonstrated here is how to build a CID-keyed font supporting the the "unencoded glyphs" using IDS pseudo-encoding + OpenType "ccmp" (or alternatively "liga") feature. It speaks about an Adobe registry ("ROS") for some supported lexical dictionnaries, where encoded codepoints or unencoded g

Re: [Unicode] Re: Implementation of ideographic description characters

2017-04-06 Thread suzuki toshiya
Maybe, some precomposed glyphs (without standardized code points) are included in the font, and the registered IDS strings are internally converted to the glyph index to them, by ligature feature of OpenType. I guess, the "composition"-like behaviour is just visible for the set of IDS registered in

Re: Implementation of ideographic description characters

2017-04-06 Thread gfb hjjhjh
Seems like Source Han Serif have just implemented such functionality? Or is this just partial. https://twitter.com/tualatrix/status/849178587680735232

Re: Implementation of ideographic description characters

2016-10-11 Thread 董福興
font. 2016-08-05 3:26 GMT+08:00 Thomas H Gewecke : > > On Aug 4, 2016, at 2:45 PM, gfb hjjhjh wrote: > > That Wikipedia page also have a section named as "Ideographic Description > Sequences" which is exactly forming sequences base on those ideographic > descr

Re: Implementation of ideographic description characters

2016-10-11 Thread Philippe Verdy
nsion become > something integrated into a font. > > 2016-08-05 3:26 GMT+08:00 Thomas H Gewecke : > >> >> On Aug 4, 2016, at 2:45 PM, gfb hjjhjh wrote: >> >> That Wikipedia page also have a section named as "Ideographic Description >> Sequenc

Re: Implementation of ideographic description characters

2016-10-11 Thread Charlie Ruland
s" which is exactly forming sequences base on those ideographic description characters As I understand it, such sequences may provide a “description” of kanji useful for some purposes, but are not sufficient to properly “render” them.

Re: Implementation of ideographic description characters

2016-10-11 Thread gfb hjjhjh
into a font. 2016-08-05 3:26 GMT+08:00 Thomas H Gewecke : > > On Aug 4, 2016, at 2:45 PM, gfb hjjhjh wrote: > > That Wikipedia page also have a section named as "Ideographic Description > Sequences" which is exactly forming sequences base on those ideographic > descr

Re: Implementation of ideographic description characters

2016-08-04 Thread Leonardo Boiko
Hi, the IDS provide too little information for rendering kanji properly. Take a look into https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_description_languages . Hello, As I read that it is possible for an implementation of Unicode that can render those ideographic description characters into

Implementation of ideographic description characters

2016-08-04 Thread gfb hjjhjh
Hello, As I read that it is possible for an implementation of Unicode that can render those ideographic description characters into rendering the kanji it describe, but is there any known/existing system or font or implementation that would do exactly this?

Re: Ideographic Description Characters

2003-12-09 Thread John Jenkins
On Dec 8, 2003, at 6:20 PM, Mark Davis wrote: John, I don't see why you are saying that it is a 'no-no'. There is no reason that someone couldn't do something like that. Strictly speaking, it isn't in violation of TUS, which only says (p. 309), "Ideographic Description Sequences are not to be

Re: Ideographic Description Characters

2003-12-08 Thread Mark Davis
n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mon, 2003 Dec 08 16:55 Subject: Re: Ideographic Description Characters > John Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Dec 8, 2

Re: Ideographic Description Characters

2003-12-08 Thread Christian Wittern
John Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Dec 8, 2003, at 3:15 AM, Andrew C. West wrote: > >> On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 11:25:01 -0700, Tom Gewecke wrote: >>> >>> Can anyone tell me whether ideographic description characters are ever >>> actually u

Re: Ideographic Description Characters

2003-12-08 Thread John Jenkins
On Dec 8, 2003, at 10:25 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote: At least, IDC would really speed up the work of unification of various repertoire sources and help avoid duplicates. It seems that, even if IDC allows several compositions, a sort of canonical ideographic decomposition (not a NFD or NFKD decomp

RE: Ideographic Description Characters

2003-12-08 Thread Philippe Verdy
John Jenkins > The IRG is attempting to set up a database of existing ideographs using > IDSs (strictly speaking, this is a no-no, but they understand that). > This will help in the analysis of submitted ideographs and speed up the > process of encoding. At least, IDC would really speed up the

Re: Ideographic Description Characters

2003-12-08 Thread John Jenkins
On Dec 8, 2003, at 3:15 AM, Andrew C. West wrote: On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 11:25:01 -0700, Tom Gewecke wrote: Can anyone tell me whether ideographic description characters are ever actually used? Well, I use them on a couple of my web pages to describe unencoded ideographs (try viewing http

Re: Ideographic Description Characters

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew C. West
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 11:25:01 -0700, Tom Gewecke wrote: > > Can anyone tell me whether ideographic description characters are ever > actually used? Well, I use them on a couple of my web pages to describe unencoded ideographs (try viewing http://uk.geocities.com/BabelStone1357/

Ideographic Description Characters

2003-12-07 Thread Tom Gewecke
Can anyone tell me whether ideographic description characters are ever actually used? I recently ran into a Han (Vietnamese NÃm) character which does not seem to be encoded yet, "slice" radical on left and "heart" radical on right, and was wondering whether it would make

Re: Ideographic description characters?

2002-03-28 Thread John H. Jenkins
This is all thoroughly covered in TUS 3.0. On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 05:33 PM, Stefan Persson wrote: > Can someone please tell me what the characters in the Ideographic > description characters block are used for? Is U+2FF0 U+5973 ($B=w(B) U+5B50 >($B;R(B) > identical to

Re: Ideographic description characters?

2002-03-27 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Stefan, > Can someone please tell me what the characters in the Ideographic > description characters block are used for? RTM: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/ch10.pdf > Is U+2FF0 U+5973 ($B=w(B) U+5B50 ($B;R(B) > identical to U+597D ($B9%(B), No. It constitutes a

Ideographic description characters?

2002-03-27 Thread Stefan Persson
Can someone please tell me what the characters in the Ideographic description characters block are used for? Is U+2FF0 U+5973 ($B=w(B) U+5B50 ($B;R(B) identical to U+597D ($B9%(B), or do these character serve for a completely different purpose? Does any font support the characters in this