- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 18:29:08 -0000
- To: "'Doug Schepers'" <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-svg@w3.org>, <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
Looks good. Thanks. RI ============ Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/International/ http://rishida.net/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Schepers [mailto:schepers@w3.org] > Sent: 03 November 2008 17:49 > To: Richard Ishida > Cc: www-svg@w3.org; public-i18n-core@w3.org > Subject: Re: [1.2T-LC] i18n comment 1: Explanation of ligatures (ISSUE-2102) > > Hi, Richard- > > Thanks very much for the suggested additions, that is most helpful. I > have added them all, as requested, and marked the issue as closed, with > your disposition as satisfied. Please let us know if this works for you. > > Thanks- > -Doug > > Richard Ishida wrote (on 11/3/08 11:45 AM): > > Here are some suggestions for wording in 10.2: > > > > [1] Remove the parens from "(Note that for proper rendering of many > > languages, ligatures are required for certain character > > combinations.)" and tack on to the end "and are not optional > > typographic features. For example, this is the case for most > > languages throughout South and South East Asia." > > > > [2] Add another bullet point, perhaps in 3rd position, that says > > something along the lines of > > > > [[ Context-sensitive glyph positioning - In many scripts, the precise > > positioning of the glyph for a given character (especially > > diacritics) will vary according to the visual context. For example, > > Thai tone marks are rendered above the base consonant, but need to be > > moved upwards further if a vowel-sign also appears above the base > > consonant. The same character is used in memory, but the final > > location of the glyph is sensitive to context. ]] > > > > > > > > [3] Add another bullet just after the one above something like... > > > > [[ Complex positioning of character glyphs - In scripts, such as > > those used for Indian languages, a combining vowel character that > > appears after a base consonant in memory may be displayed to the left > > of the base consonant, or on two sides of the base consonant, ie. the > > left-most glyph in rendered text may not be the first character in a > > text element. Indeed, such vowel characters may be rendered to the > > left of, or on more than one side of, a <em>cluster</em> of > > consonants that ends with the character they follow in memory. On > > the other hand, a Hindi RA character at the beginning of a consonant > > cluster in memory may be displayed over a following vowel sign to the > > right of the following syllabic cluster. The location in which > > glyphs are displayed, from left to right, in these scripts can differ > > significantly from the order of the characters in memory. ]] > > > > > > If you add some additional wording along the lines of the above, and > > given the changes already made, I believe you will satisfy our > > comment. > > > > Thank you. > > > > RI > > > >
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