Yudit and Tamil

[Gaspar Sinai <gsinai@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,
I would like the list discuss this. I will
sit back and wait:)

History:
Thuraiappah came to me and asked how Tamil
could be supported in Yudit.  I told him that
as far as I know Indic scripts are pretty
much out of luck as there are no presentation
forms defined in Unicode. I advised him to
add private area glyphs to precompose.mys. 
He made Tamil supported within a few hours!

Issues:
1. Can Yudit just 'standardise' on its own?
I tried to adhere to Unicode wherever it made 
sense. I understand that standrards are important.
But things could be so much easier...

2. Is there a way to, say, register private 
area precompositions?

3. I think presentation should be part of a
standard. What do you think?

[I made this list pretty short this time - I don't
want to be a troll - I want to solve a problem]

Non-issues:
Tamil rpivate area  affects only visual
representation so the files saved are fully 
unicode compliant.

Thanks
Gaspar

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:30:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Thuraiappah Vaseeharan <t_vasee@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Gaspar Sinai <gsinai@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Tamil language in Yudit: It Works!

Hi Gaspar,

Many thanks for your help. I was able get Tamil
composed glyps working by including the appropriate
definitions in precompose.my; this is so cool! I'll
send you the Tamil-related files soon.

Do the glyphs in the private use area have to be
"registered" somewhere? Otherwise, we would have to
define different precompose sequences for each font,
don't we?

> if you write something after and before then we may
> need Arabic-like  shaping otherwise precompose.mys
> would be just fine. If this is not a requirement -
> at least for a text editor - we might be fine.

The definitions in precompose.my appear to cover all
the Tamil glyphs. Arabic type shaping is probably not
needed for Tamil.

Thanks again,

-Vasee



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