- From: <Peter_Constable@sil.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:58:46 -0500
- To: Unicoders <unicode@unicode.org>, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>
On 09/27/2002 12:27:22 AM jameskass wrote: >Don't despair. As Peter Constable has pointed out, the infrastructure >for having browsers support language tags is already present. Actually, my point was specifically that *part* of the infrastructure is already present, at least in OpenType, but not *all*, either in OpenType (meaning of "language" in the OT spec needs to be clarified, and relationships between these tags and the "language" tags used for data e.g. RFC 3066, need to be resolved), or in APIs (there's no way for apps to indicate which OT "language" tag to apply to a run unless the app wishes to do *all* of the OT support -- replacing e.g. Uniscribe -- itself). >Once the font specs for all this are set and fonts are released with >the necessary coverage and the shaping engines can access all of this, >the browsers are sure to quickly add support, too. I'm not quite as optimistic in terms of how close we are to having all this ready to go. I think there's some hard work still ahead. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485 E-mail: <peter_constable@sil.org>
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