Re: Unicode 5.1, Egyptian Transliteration, and Fonts

Saqqara wrote:
> I used a test font on Windows XP (by far the most prevalent OS, currently,
> with Egyptologists) to see if ligatures were applied by software with i/I
> and U+0486, the results were:
> 
> WordPad - yes, Notepad - yes, Microsoft Word - yes; WordPerfect - yes;
> OpenOffice Writer 2.3 - NO.
> 
> FireFox 2, Safari, Internet Explorer 7 - NO.
> 
> For some reason the browsers (and OpenOffice) are not applying the ligature
> defined in the (TrueType) font and one can conjecture that this may be due
> to the Script value. Certainly until this is changed to 'Inherited' it would
> not be totally unreasonable for software authors to limit combining/ligature
> behaviour to Cyrillic.
> 
> I hope developers of these applications subscribe to the list so perhaps we
> can be informed on the rationale behind the current situation for OpenOffice
> and the browsers.

You might try testing with the beta version of Firefox 3 
(http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html), it has significant 
changes to the way text is handled and should take better advantage of 
Uniscribe's capabilities than 2.0 did.

-Justin Kerk