[mpeg-OTspec] Re: [OpenType] Allowing DFLT to take languages

[Adam Twardoch (List)]

so

languagesystem DFLT QYA # Quenya
languagesystem DFLT SJN # Sindarin

? :) 
Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codes_for_constructed_languages

(But of course in reality those languages don't have an OpenType languagesystem code :) ). 

A.

Sent from my mobile phone.

> On 12.04.2016, at 18:57, John Hudson john at tiro.ca [mpeg-OTspec] <mpeg-OTspec-noreply at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> On 12/04/16 08:51, Eric Muller eric.muller at efele.net [mpeg-OTspec] wrote:
> 
> > - it seemed weird that you (font designer) would care to have language
> > specific behaviors when you have no idea of the script.
> ...
> > - if you really need to do something specific for language l, then you
> > also know that it is commonly written in scripts x, y, z, and you can add
> > (x, l, feature) -> lookup, (y, l, feature) -> lookup, (z, l, feature) ->
> > lookup.
> ...
> > - it is a lot easier to open the door to (DFLT, specific language) than
> > to close it, from a system point of view; without a good case for it, it
> > seemed prudent to leave the door closed at first.
> 
> One of the functions of DFLT, as I understand it, is to provide access 
> to OTL processing for PUA encoded characters. Since PUA is used to 
> encode conscript and conlang characters that are excluded from standard 
> Unicode encoding, but which function in parallel to conventional scripts 
> and languages, it makes sense to me that DFLT should be able to take 
> language system tags.
> 
> For example, Tolkien's Tengwar script was conceived by him for the 
> writing of two different Elvish languages — Quenya and Sindarin —, and 
> enthusiasts have adapted it to write a number of other languages 
> (including earthly human languages). It seems to me quite conceivable 
> that Tengwar font makers may wish to vary behaviour of the script on a 
> language-specific basis. And of course, since Tengwar is a complex 
> script but excluded from Unicode, they are dependent on PUA encoding and 
> DFLT script OTL processing.
> 
> JH
> 
> -- 
> 
> John Hudson
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