On 9/24/13, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
> No, we can't throw Combining away like that.
> Combining is pan-language, it's a unicode feature.
>
> Whether we should rewrite it, and/or provide font support,
> - a simple rule that combines a base character with a single diacritics
> into a precomposed unicode like Yoshiki implemented is already better than
> nothing.

+1

and very common in hundreds of languages

So we shall support it for WideString at least

+1
(totally useless
> for ByteString).

not totally but not important these days.


> - we should recognize more complex cases and pass the baby to the font IMHO


> The font shall decide how to render (put a ? mark or display just the base,
> or do the whole combination with multiple accent stacking etc...)
>
> Did you try to reconnect Combining in Unicode scanSelector?
> That would be interesting.
> Currently my image is blocked after if I try to render (String with: $a
> with: (16r300 to: 16r36F) atRandom asCharacter)...
> MessageNotUnderstood:
> CompositionScanner>>scanMultiCharactersCombiningFrom:to:in:rightX:stopConditions:kern:
> but what if we add it in both CharacterScanner branches?
>
>
> 2013/9/25 tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>
>
>>
>> On 24-09-2013, at 3:37 PM, Nicolas Cellier <
>> nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > 1) because there is a special scanning method for Japanese
>>
>> So that removes the main(?) need for scanMultiCharactersCombining… ?
>>
>> > 2) because unicode diacritics and other combining chars should be
>> rendered specially
>>
>> And we certainly don't seem to do that right at the moment. Does FreeType
>> deal with that? Would we be better off removing the
>> scanMultiCharactersCombining… methods for now and replacing them later
>> with
>> a new approach (to be written by Yoshiki, of course ;-) ) ? We might be
>> able to remove the CombinedChar related code too in that case.
>>
>>
>> tim
>> --
>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere.
>>
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