FW: [OpenType] MS Proposal for a new Name Table ID

[Levantovsky, Vladimir]

Please see below. Due to my email address domain changes, the original message has bounced from both lists.

Thanks,
Vlad


-----Original Message-----
From: Levantovsky, Vladimir 
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 3:32 PM
To: 'Michelle Perham'; opentype-migration-list at indx.co.uk; OTspec (mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com)
Cc: Dwayne Robinson
Subject: RE: [OpenType] MS Proposal for a new Name Table ID

Hi all,

First of all, Happy New Year and thank you Dwayne and Michelle for putting together a proposal and bringing it for discussion. I would like to remind you all that this (and some other) emails are copied to various recipients including OT and OFF discussion lists. While OFF list software handles multiple recipients in To: / CC: fields just fine, the OT list is known to drop all them. Therefore, when responding to any future emails please make sure that you:
a) either responding to a copy that you received from MPEG-OTspec (OFF) list that has all intended recipients in the email header, or
b) manually add Dwayne Robinson <dwayner at microsoft.com> and <mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com> addresses in your reply.

Thank you,
Vlad


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com [mailto:mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Michelle Perham
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 2:59 PM
> To: opentype-migration-list at indx.co.uk; OTspec (mpeg-
> OTspec at yahoogroups.com)
> Cc: Dwayne Robinson
> Subject: [mpeg-OTspec] RE: [OpenType] MS Proposal for a new Name Table 
> ID
> 
> You are correct, Jonathan.
> 
> "more than one name table entry" should read "more than one tag in the 
> name table entry."
> 
> Michelle
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: listmaster at indx.co.uk [mailto:listmaster at indx.co.uk] On Behalf 
> Of Jonathan Kew
> Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2013 10:20 AM
> To: "multiple recipients of OpenType"@mail.indx.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [OpenType] MS Proposal for a new Name Table ID
> 
> Message from OpenType list:
> 
> 
> On 3/1/13 17:33, Michelle Perham wrote:
> 
> > Microsoft has several small changes we'd like to propose. I'll be 
> > sending them out over the next 2 days. The first proposal is for an 
> > addition to the 'name' table. The proposal comes from Dwayne
> Robinson,
> > who I've cc'd on this email. Please include him on your responses.
> >
> > Justification: OpenType fonts need a way to identify their intended 
> > language usage so that scenarios like text editing can choose 
> > appropriate fonts which switching language/IME. The inadequate 
> > legacy codepage bits have been long exhausted, so I propose adding 
> > name
> table
> > id 23 containing an IETF language tag 
> > (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/name.htm).
> >
> > The following description would be added to the documentation table.
> > "Intended Language. This is the language the font was really 
> > designed for, which is not necessarily the same as character 
> > coverage. This allows distinction, for example, amongst Asian fonts 
> > as being Traditional Chinese vs Simplified Chinese vs Japanese, even 
> > though
> the
> > fonts may have cmap coverage for a subset of each. All language 
> > identifiers follow the IETF format with an optional language and 
> > country and mandatory script subtag. These strings are encoded in 
> > UTF-16BE using platform ID 0, encoding ID 3, and the respective 
> > language id. Examples include "*-Jpan", "zh-Hans", "zh-Hant". If the 
> > font genuinely targets and fully supports more than one language, it 
> > will include more than one name table entry separated by commas."
> 
> I think there's a problem with this wording: Do you really mean that 
> it will include "more than one name table entry", or (as I suspect) 
> that the (single) name table entry will include multiple, 
> comma-separated IETF language tags?
> 
> JK
> 
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