[MPEG-OTSPEC] Many to many substitution and localization

[John Hudson]

On 2024-09-28 06:41, William_J_G Overington via mpeg-otspec wrote:
>
> Well, I am suggesting the substitution from the displaying of glyphs for
>
> !983
>
> to the displaying of glyphs for
>
> Diolch am ymweld.
>
I understand what you are proposing, but you have not demonstrated any 
value in doing this at the glyph level.

Fonts are media for typography. The way in which they work and how they 
relate to text encoding is particular to the needs of typography, which 
is to say that they are designed to enable flexible stylistic 
representation of text with more or less idiosyncratic features at the 
glyph level in terms of both design and behaviour. Purely standardised 
behaviours, i.e. non-idiosyncratic features, are best defined outside 
the scope of individual fonts, at e.g. the text encoding or higher 
level. Unsurprisingly, that is exactly where text string localisation is 
done, with the great benefit that the localised strings /can be 
displayed by any font supporting the target writing system/. You are 
proposing breaking something that already works in order to make it work 
in a more convoluted and less useful way.

JH


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