1) because there is a special scanning method for Japanese
2) because unicode diacritics and other combining chars should be rendered
specially


2013/9/25 tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>

>
> On 24-09-2013, at 3:14 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > I'd support a rewrite of the whole thing, and perhaps would do more
> > "total rewrite" approach…
>
>
> That's easy for you to say; you actually know about i18n stuff. I can't
> even reliably spell it…
>
> What do you remember about the various
> scanMultiCharactersCombiningFrom:to:in:rightX:stopConditions:kern: methods?
> The only 'live' reference to them is commented out in Unicode
> class>scanSelector, so we could argue that they all ought to be deleted.
> But I doubt all that work was done just for the hell of it and if it isn't
> in use now there was presumably a reason for the change.
>
> tim
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