Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

Kenneth Whistler wrote,

> Translated, the combination of those two paragraphs means that
> if you use IDS, you can't depend on anybody *else* to draw
> a Han character for you -- nobody is required to do so, and
> in fact the whole section is so hedged with the difficulties
> and interpretative issues involved, that nobody is even
> encouraged to do so.

The whole section is so hedged with comments about maximum 
recursion levels and related concepts that it seems T.U.S. 
expects that some applications will do so.  
 
> But if you insist, the standard isn't going to say that you *cannot*
> write an implementation to do so for your own edification -- you
> "may" display an IDS as a constructed glyph.

Leaving decisions about rendering to the people responsible
for rendering strikes me as the best practice.

Best regards,

James Kass