Re: Help: Arabic fonts for Turklangs

Tim May wrote:


> Isaac Penzev wrote at 2005-02-06 22:39:25 (+0200)
> What version of Code2000 do you have?  It's under continual
> development, later versions may do better (I don't have it myself, so
> I couldn't say).
I'm not sure. Rather an old one. The zip file on my comp is dated 01/12/20.

> Or it may indeed just be your platform.  Win98 isn't the most
> sophisticated OS with regard to Unicode.
Alas. But I have an Office2000 installed on it, plus a Hebrew/Arabic support
patch; that helps in most cases.

> Could you give specific examples where Code2000 has problems?  I'm
> using the font PakType Tehreer under Linux, and it seems to be able to
> handle anything I can think of (at least in Pango apps) but my
> knowledge of what _should_ happen is limited.
It reads all the characters, but do not change some characters automaticly
from isolated to medial forms. The exact problems need to be figured out by
testing.

> A good point.  I should make it clear that by "supports" I include
> having the necessary OpenType tables for the rendering of ligatures*.
> And even given that, a successful outcome is contingent upon the
> presence of suitable complex text rendering architecture on your
> platform.
Well, I don't know much about computers to comment on this, but OTOH there
are still some non-Unicode fonts that may be encoded manually, as they have
different code points for isolated and medial forms, e.g. "Persian Web" or
"Nasf2". But it is a bad solution: if this is a web page, the person will
need to download this font first to see the page correctly.

-- Yitzik