[MPEG-OTSPEC] Many to many substitution and localization

[William_J_G Overington]

Many to many substitution and localization 
 
I write to suggest a new feature in fonts.
 
A many to many substitution that can be used for localization and 
applied in producing a display of that localization.
 
For example, please consider that a sequence !983 in a document is 
replaced by its localization into a language chosen by the person 
reading the text.
 
For example, for localization into Welsh.
 
sub !983 -> D i o l c h space a m space y m w e l d period ;
 
Yet maybe the following method of expressing such a rule could be 
allowed for convenience, to become encoded exactly the same as the above 
within the font.
 
sub !983 -> #Diolch_am_ymweld. ;
 
The facility would need to be able to be able to manage longer examples, 
such as those of a collection of encoded localizable sentences for 
seeking information through the language barrier about relatives and 
friends after a disaster.
 
I appreciate the difference of a character from a glyph. I am unsure 
whether at the present time a glyph in a font can have a one character 
name if that character is not one of the 52 letters of the uppercase and 
lowercase presentations of the basic English Alphabet. But even if that 
is not presently possible, maybe it could be in the future.
 
Yet for the future, maybe the result of the substitution could be made 
available both as characters and as glyphs.
 
I appreciate that this idea is not what fonts are "for" at the 
present time, yet I opine that this could be a useful feature to become 
introduced.
 
Can this idea become implemented please?
 
William Overington
 
Thursday 26 September 2024
 
 
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