Re: Adding tis620.2533-0 into Thai Pango engine

[Robert Brady <robert suse co uk>]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Chookij Vanatham wrote:

> Let me know what you think and if you agree, please let me know
> how this convention on encoding field on XLFD will be maintained
> and well-known to anybody as the standard.

> ] In Solaris, we have Wtt2.0 rule for the display. Wtt2.0 provides the table
> ] to check whether the current Thai character can be combined with the previous
> ] character. If it can't be combined like those invalid Thai sequences such as,
> ] U+0E48 + U+0E34 --> this is invalid sequence, then U+0E34 will be displayed
> ] as its own cell.

This is not a platform-dependent or even font-dependent setting.  This
should be a user preference.

Any other way is mad.

(Sure, you may want to ship this with a different default).

-- 
Robert Brady
robert suse co uk