Re: CHAT: A sample of my newborn conlang

From: "jogloran" <exponent@...>

| Either that, or WinXP supports Unicode internally, doesn't it?

It does -- as does its immediate predecessor, Windows 2000 -- but even more than
that. It supports OpenType, and full functionality with "complex scripts".

This means that Arabic text is input using the basic symbols, but the
presentation forms (the initial, medial and final forms of each letter) are
automatically displayed. This is part of complex script support. All the Arabic
presentation forms are supported in Unicode. But not Syriac, Thaana, Devanagari,
Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam or
Sinhalese. This is where XP steps in. The fonts include the presentation forms
which have no allocation in Unicode (yet), and once again it automatically
shapes everything properly. It even produces the very complex and numerous forms
used in Sanskrit, and there are nearly a thousand-odd different forms in the
most conservative form of Devanagari.

And I'm not trying to sell MS off on you all, just wanted to make sure that was
clear....

~Danny~


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