[Bug 455981] Missing locl romanian magic

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Summary: Missing locl romanian magic


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455981





------- Additional Comments From gaburici at cs.umd.edu  2008-07-22 07:55 EST -------
(In reply to comment #7)
>
> So, is this only for latn{ROM} and latn{MOL}, or are there other dialects that 
> need it as well? If you know any, the full list of languages that can be used 
> in OpenType is at http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/languagetags.htm 
> so you can check if it's there.

As you pointed out, Adobe's fonts do this for latn{MOL} as well. But Moldavians
have their own academy (and country), so I don't know it this is appropriate or
not. Wikipedia doesn't have a page on their alphabet. I guess Adobe is preparing
Moldavians for an an anschluss ;)

No other languages should need it, or if they do, Adobe ignores them for now...

> 
> Similar issue, the s/t with cedilla code point should be canonically the same 
> as s/t + combining cedilla. In short, that would mean that when you write such 
> a sequence you need to get a t with comma below as well for Romanian. But I'm 
> not entirely sure how to do that yet... Probably a "calt" (contextual 
> alternate) feature for the combining cedilla, but that's not applied by 
> default in Pango unfortunately, we could misuse "ccmp" (glyph 
> composition/decomposition) for it, but I'd like to see "calt" turned on once, 
> and this way I can use the Romanian community to push Behdad :-)

Can you provide a test string string for the combining business? Fontmatrix does
not rely on pango for OpenType features, so I can test it there.



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