[CREATE] otf•UI product vision, warm off the press...

[peter sikking]

thanks Khaled for the input; appreciated.

On 21 Sep 2015, at 17:22, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:

>>> for non-latin scripts, I do not know this (note: user-controllable,
>>> not the automatic stuff).
>> 
>> Yes, I believe this is true for all scripts. Khaled, is this true for
>> arabic?
> 
> Yes, I believe. No user controllable features should be needed to get
> basic shaping. Even in scripts where manual intervention is sometimes
> needed for basic shaping, it is usually achieved by means of control
> characters (ZWJ, NBSP and the likes), as this is seen by Unicode as an
> integral part of the text not some kind of optional styling.
> 
> Regards,
> Khaled



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