Re: Rendering of ellipsis for different scripts

Damjan Georgievski <[email protected]> Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:26:54 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.internationalization
Organization Free Software Macedonia
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> No, the purpose of Unicode is to encode abstract characters, that are
> recognised as representing the same element, but can have very various
> graphical representations (glyphs) depending on both context and language.
... 
> If you want a nice display, you need to carry that language an cultural
> preferences information into your display engine.

Does Firefox do this today? - on Linux? 
How about Firefox 3?

I ask this because we have a similar problem, different glyphs for cyrillic
itallic letters in macedonian/serbian vs russian/bulgarian (I don't know
for other languages).


Also, does anyone know of a tool I could use to inspect if the font has
language specific glyphs?





-- 
damjan