Re: [css-text] Clusters for letter spacing in Thai and other complex scripts

On 27 September 2013 11:05, James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> wrote:


> I tried to explain in my last message why I thought tailoring the
> definition of extended grapheme cluster was not the right approach, and
> suggested an alternative approach.  Let me try to put it more succinctly:
> the clusters of glyphs between which Thai/Lao letter-spacing inserts space
> are different from the clusters of glyph corresponding to extended grapheme
> clusters.  The spec for letter-spacing should allow for the fact that for
> some scripts the typographically correct points to insert letter space do
> not correspond to boundaries between extended grapheme clusters.
>

+1



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