Etienne de Boissezon
2004-04-15 19:42:30 UTC
désolé je retranscrit pas mon msg en francais, mais vous comprendrez mon
anglais a 2 francs :) :
I'm trying to adapt linux and openoffice for handling caracters from
west africa (lyele from gurunsi ethnics)...
I have to handle various latin cars, and some ipa cars, all with
multiple diacritics (like: IPA open o + tilde + acute)
Openoffice won't render well multiple diacritics (the tilde and the
acute won't be stacked as defined in unicode 4 specs, but written in the
same place). Neither do other apps like mozilla... Is that a feature
that will be handled in the future?
I figure linux mandrake is only unicode 2.2 compliant... is that true?
Of course I can design my own diacritics glyphs, but where to put them
in unicode? there are 5 unused spaces in diacritics, should it be ok?
But when I design a font with fontographer, and put my special diacritic
(non spacing mark tilde + acute) in this space, openoffice won't render
it well (like spacing mark)... Well, open office is quite buggy when I
use my own font... any idea of the mistake I made creating the font?
merci
anglais a 2 francs :) :
I'm trying to adapt linux and openoffice for handling caracters from
west africa (lyele from gurunsi ethnics)...
I have to handle various latin cars, and some ipa cars, all with
multiple diacritics (like: IPA open o + tilde + acute)
Openoffice won't render well multiple diacritics (the tilde and the
acute won't be stacked as defined in unicode 4 specs, but written in the
same place). Neither do other apps like mozilla... Is that a feature
that will be handled in the future?
I figure linux mandrake is only unicode 2.2 compliant... is that true?
Of course I can design my own diacritics glyphs, but where to put them
in unicode? there are 5 unused spaces in diacritics, should it be ok?
But when I design a font with fontographer, and put my special diacritic
(non spacing mark tilde + acute) in this space, openoffice won't render
it well (like spacing mark)... Well, open office is quite buggy when I
use my own font... any idea of the mistake I made creating the font?
merci