[HarfBuzz] Mongolian Layout ?

[Deron Kazmaier]

I have a number of things I would like to add to Harfbuzz, but I was 
told to wait until a radical new version was out. Did I miss that 
release announcement or has that been scratched?

Deron

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> 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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