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Subject:    Re: [Fonts] [Bug 1084] Syriac fonts uses non standard codepoints
From:       Emil Soleyman-Zomalan <emil () nishra ! com>
Date:       2004-01-16 19:26:10
Message-ID: 1074281170.6663.23.camel () assur
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On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 10:50, Jungshik Shin wrote:

> It shouldn't have been accepted in the first place if they have this 
> serious problem. This is NOT to say that Syriac is not to be supported, 
> but there are a lot of code points for Syriac fonts to use for 
> presentation forms and it's very hard to understand why they use code 
> points for Greek instead of PUA code points for presentation forms. BTW, 
> what's the format of Syriac fonts included in XFree86? Does anyone know 
> application programs that rely on this particular code point assignment 
> of Syriac presentation forms?

I was the individual who packaged up the fonts for XFree86 (with
permission from the organization that created them, Beth Mardutho). I
did not realize that some of the fonts had this problem -- the
presentation forms should NOT BE assigned any code points at all.

The Syriac fonts' format is OpenType. Currently no applications rely on
these code point assignments but they will be needed in the future. For
example, when Syriac code point #072C (Taw) and precedes #0710 (Alaph) a
new variant called Taw-Alaph is formed -- this variant is visually
distinct from its component letters and that's where these code points
come into play.

I will be contacting Beth Mardutho today and I will bring up this matter
with them again. Please have patience with them as well as with me.

-- 
Emil Soleyman-Zomalan <emil@nishra.com>
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