> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Peter Kirk
> Thank you. This is the clarification I was looking for, and confirms my > own suspicions. But are there any other views on this? I have heard > them from implementers of rendering systems. But I have wondered if this > is because of their reluctance to do the extra work required to conform > to this requirement. This isn't something that can be fixed in rendering systems. It wouldn't be hard to do; it's just too much of a performance issue. It has to be addressed by the software calling the rendering system. Peter Peter Constable Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies Microsoft Windows Division