[HarfBuzz] Mongolian Layout ?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 10:35 -0400, Ed Trager wrote:
> Hi, Behdad and everyone,
> 
> The fact that a Mongolian font and Mongolian layout is now available
> in Vista should make it easier to test Mongolian layout in Harfbuzz.
> 
> So, I am just wondering if anyone has thought about providing and/or
> testing/debugging Mongolian OpenType support in Harfbuzz yet?

Hi,

I know Mathrick (CC'ed) was interested in getting Mongolian working.
CC'ing him.

behdad

> Best - Ed Trager
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Andrew West <andrewcwest at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:49 AM
> Subject: Re: About Mongolian characters in Unicode
> To: Dagvadorj Galbadrakh <dagvadorj at gmail.com>
> Cc: unicode at unicode.org
> 
> 
> 2008/6/17 Dagvadorj Galbadrakh <dagvadorj at gmail.com>:
> >
> > http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch13.pdf#G18211 is indeed a
> > fantastic document. Those who prepared this document (I believe he/she is in
> > the Unicode developing team) is a lot capable of Mongolian.
> 
> Thank you. I am responsible for the section on Mongolian, so if you
> have any specific questions about how Unicode Mongolian works please
> feel free to contact me off-list.
> 
> > As far as I understand from some documents including
> > http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=UniscribeVersions,
> > variation/form convergence is not available until Windows Vista i.e., it is
> > not available on Windows XP and Office 2003 etc.
> 
> That is correct. Although theoretically Mongolian could work correctly
> on Windows XP with a smart Mongolian font and a dumb rendering engine,
> in practice the cleverness involved in rendering Mongolian correctly
> is shared between the rendering engine (Uniscribe) and the font, and
> only in Vista do you have both a version of Uniscribe that supports
> Mongolian and a functional Mongolian font ("Mongolian Baiti").
> 
> Andrew
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