[mpeg-OTspec] Re: [OpenType] Feature for JIS 4051/JLREQ widths

[Ken Lunde]

John,

Right, and I believe that the current ballot has a suggestion to change what is in the 2015 version to the following:

"This feature should be off by default. However, implementations conforming to JLREQ (Requirements for Japanese Text Layout) or similar CJK text layout standard that expect half-width forms of characters whose default glyphs are full-width should turn on this feature by default, or selectively apply this feature to particular characters that require special treatment for CJK text layout purposes, such as brackets, punctuation, and quotes."

Best...

-- Ken

> On May 24, 2016, at 12:45 PM, John Hudson <john at tiro.ca> wrote:
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> On 24/05/16 12:34, Ken Lunde lunde at adobe.com [mpeg-OTspec] wrote:
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>> Instead, look for my reply from earlier today in which I steered Eric to the 'halt' and 'vhal" features, whose descriptions are current in the ISO/IUEC 14496-22:2015 and match the discussions that we had last year.
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> As I recall, the discussion last year concluded that we should make the relationship of these features to the JLREQ standard explicit in the feature descriptions (in the same way that we're now making the relationship of <init> <medi> etc. to the Unicode ArabicJoining.txt explicit).
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> JH
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> John Hudson
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