Re: Yogh (was Re: y sound)

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 10:09:19PM +1000, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> There's no requirement for the character to be encoded.
And in fact, Unicode will not encode any more characters that can be
precomposed.

> A good renderer
> should, I understand, display a+combining macron as the LATIN (CYRILLIC)
> SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON ABOVE character. I don't think there's
> anything stopping a font designer from putting HA WITH HOOK, DESCENDER
> AND CEDILLA into the personal use area and having the sequence
> ha+combining hook+combining descender+combining cedilla be represented
> as the character from the PUA.
Actually, most font technologies that support this, like Opentype, don't
require you to put the character into the PUA; it's just unencoded, with
HA, HOOK, DESCENDER, CEDILLA being converted into that glyph. (Actually,
this is a bad example; descender's need to be encoded.) You have to do
this to handle Hindi or Arabic, so it shouldn't be a big deal.

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