[MPEG-OTSPEC] Many to many substitution and localization

[John Hudson]

On 2024-09-26 10:57, William_J_G Overington via mpeg-otspec wrote:
> I only know a little about OpenType

So maybe learn more about it before suggesting things to be added to the 
OTL feature set or other aspects of the format?

Sorry if that sounds harsh, but you say elsewhere that you ‘appreciate 
the difference of a character from a glyph’ and then proceed to suggest 
glyph-level substitutions to affect character-level text operations such 
as string translation. There is a whole field of text localisation in 
software that has solved this for various scenarios a long time ago. You 
are trying to reinvent a well-worn wheel using an inappropriate 
technology about which, by your own admission, you only know a little.

Again, sorry if that sounds harsh, but you seem to have habit of picking 
up on bits of technology, not taking time to understand them, and then 
proposing things to do with them. A few months ago it was Unicode 
variation selectors, a couple of years ago it was using 
glyph-substitution to describe emoji as input for text-to-speech: 
further evidence that while you claim to appreciate the difference 
between characters and glyphs, you don’t actually /understand/ the 
difference.

JH


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