<font face="verdana,sans-serif">Any chance somebody like you, who is intimately familiar with all the moving parts involved, could summarize the implications for fonts?</font><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="verdana,sans-serif">T<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Eric Muller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emuller@adobe.com">emuller@adobe.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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While this proposed TR is mostly from the point of view of Unicode,
there are implications for fonts and layout engines.<br>
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Eric.<br>
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<td>Proposed Draft UTR #50, Unicode Properties for Vertical
Text Layout now available</td>
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<pre>The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public
review and comment. Details are on the following web page:
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/review/pri207/" target="_blank">http://www.unicode.org/review/pri207/</a>
Review period for the new item closes on October 24, 2011.
Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.
Briefly, the new issue is:
PRI #207, Proposed Draft UTR #50, Unicode Properties for Vertical Text
Layout
The layout of Japanese text follows different conventions than the
layout of Western texts. Many of the requirements are described in the
W3C Working Group Note “Requirements for Japanese Text Layout”. This new
proposed draft technical report describes two Unicode character
properties which can be used to implement those requirements.
This is a moderated Public Review Issue. An unmoderated discussion takes
place on the designated forum:
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=35" target="_blank">http://www.unicode.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=35</a>
The moderator of this PRI will summarize the discussion and provide it
as formal feedback to the Unicode Technical Committee. Towards the end
of the PRI, formal feedback will also be accepted from other parties, if
they feel that the summary does not reflect accurately their concerns.
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px">“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, </span></font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px"> somewhere, may be happy.”</span></font><div>
<font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px"> —H.L. Mencken</span></font></div></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div><br>
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