<div dir="ltr"><span class="" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px">In January, I posted to the Mpeg-OTspec group some communication with Vlad Levantovsky regarding Armenian East-West distinctions we had been grappling with for years. For convenience, I include it here along with follow up conversation and add some information by my domain expert, George Simper as of today. I hope this will help motivate an additional OpenType language tag for Armenian West.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px">Best regards,</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px">John D. Hopkins</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px">
<br></div><div><span class="" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Vlad,<div><br></div><div>…</div><div><br></div><div>For many years we have been dealing with distinctions between Armenian East (used inside Armenia) vs. Armenian West (used outside of Armenia, including the US). There are many differences between these two forms of the language and how they affect font glyphs. Our company's linguists say that Microsoft and Adobe products only use rules corresponding to Armenian West, but our needs are for Armenian East. So we have built fonts that favor the latter, which we use in-house for our own publications. But we also have older publications that are supposed to use the Armenian West. So we really need both. </div>
<div><br></div><div>There is no distinction between these two variants of Armenian using ISO 639-3 exclusively. Nor are there really any clear distinctions in OpenType's language tags. In the OpenType Spec, there is a script tag 'armn' and a language tag 'HYE ' for Armenian. There is also the 'dflt' language tag. We could really use a standard way of handling font glyph differences between these two variants of Armenian within OpenType. We have observed that under the 'armn' script tag, that both the 'dflt' and 'HYE ' tags use Armenian West rules in Microsoft and Adobe products. Perhaps an additional OpenType tag of 'HYE2' or 'HYEE' could be added that would correspond to Armenian East rules. (Another possibility is to use 'HYE ' for Armenian East and 'HYEW' for Armenian West. It does not really matter to us, as long there is a clear distinction in the OTSpec). </div>
<div><br></div><div>Again, thank you for your help. We have not known exactly who to turn to, to resolve these issues, though we have brought them up to both Microsoft and Adobe in years past, unfortunately without success. Maybe you and this group can help.</div>
<div><br></div><div class="im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div>Best regards,</div><div>John D. Hopkins</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>>>>>>>>> I added further: </div><div><br></div></div></span><span class="" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Note that IANA tags used for BCP-47 language tagging distinguish these two variants of Armenian:<div>
<span style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word">Type: variant
Subtag: arevela
Description: Eastern Armenian
Added: 2006-09-18
Prefix: hy
%%
Type: variant
Subtag: arevmda
Description: Western Armenian
Added: 2006-09-18
Prefix: hy
%%
</pre><div>(from <a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>>>>>>>>>> Vlad responded:</div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thank you John,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I think the issues you brought up are important to address but they seem to require quite a bit of further discussions and work. I doubt that simply adding new tags would solve it by itself, we also need to understand the differences between languages and document them properly so that the companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Monotype (and many independent font vendors) would know what the problems are and how to solve them, what is required of implementations, etc. The lack of this understanding is what may have been hampered the progress on this issue – we definitely need to continue this discussion to find a solution.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thank you,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Vlad</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font class="" color="#1f497d"><span class="" style="font-size:15px"><br></span></font></p></span><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;text-align:left;color:black;border-bottom-width:medium;border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-width:medium;border-left-style:none;border-left-color:initial;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in;padding-right:0in;border-top-color:rgb(181,196,223);border-top-width:1pt;border-top-style:solid;border-right-width:medium;border-right-style:none;border-right-color:initial;padding-top:3pt">
<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>George Simper <br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:22:09 -0600<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"John D. Hopkins" <br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Armenian-East and Armenian-West<br>
</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="" style><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
John</p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
The majority of the reference materials were provided in 2007 by by Timo Koponen, our language supervisor in Europe.</p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
 </p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span>I.<span style="font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'">                    </span></span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Pronunciation differences</b></p>
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">As we saw on the site <a href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/armenian.htm" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">http://www.omniglot.com/writing/armenian.htm</a>, the artwork for the two languages is the same, but the pronunciation for the artwork is different. Mostly changes of voiced (dza, ga) to voiceless (tza, ka). See the attached PDF for the various changes in pronunciation.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
<b>Recommendation for supporting spelling differences</b></p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">With the pronunciation differences,  spellings will be different, requiring the need for different spell checkers and grammar checkers, unique language tags for Armenian-East and Armenian-West will be required in 639-3 to support them.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
<b><span>II.<span style="font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'">                  </span></span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Ligatures</b></p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
The biggest problem with ligatures is one glyph, U+0587 <span style="font-family:Sylfaen,serif">և</span>, which is handled quite differently depending on which form of Armenian you are working with. See the tables below.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
<b>Armenian-East</b></p><table class="" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial">
<tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:solid;border-top-color:windowtext;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-left-color:windowtext;border-top-width:1pt;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-top-color:windowtext;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-top-width:1pt;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Unicode</p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-top-color:windowtext;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-top-width:1pt;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Artwork</p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-left-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Lower Case</p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">0587</p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Sylfaen,serif">և</span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-left-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Upper Case</p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">0535 + 057E</p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Sylfaen,serif">Ե</span> + <span style="font-family:Sylfaen,serif">վ</span></p>
</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-left-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">ALL CAPS</p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">0535 + 054E</p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Sylfaen,serif">Ե + Վ</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
<span style="font-family:Sylfaen,serif"> </span></p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">OpenType rules for casing would require that <b>0587</b> be changed to <b>0535+057E</b> for Initial capitals, and <b>0535+0543</b> for all capitals or small capitals.. It would also require that 0535+057E for Initial capitals, and 0535+054E for All caps and small caps be changed to 0587 when moving back to lower case.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:Sylfaen,serif"> </span></b></p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
<b>Armenian-West</b></p><table class="" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial">
<tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:solid;border-top-color:windowtext;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-left-color:windowtext;border-top-width:1pt;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Sylfaen,serif"> </span></p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-top-color:windowtext;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-top-width:1pt;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Unicode</p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-top-color:windowtext;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-top-width:1pt;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Artwork</p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-left-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Lower Case</p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">0587</p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Sylfaen,serif">և</span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-left-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Upper Case</p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">0535 + 0582</p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Sylfaen,serif">Ե + ւ</span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-left-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">ALL CAPS</p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">0535 + 0542</p></td><td valign="top" style="border-top-style:none;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-style:solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:5.4pt;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:5.4pt">
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Sylfaen,serif">Ե + Ղ</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
<span style="font-family:Sylfaen,serif"> </span></p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">OpenType rules for casing would require that <b>0587</b> be changed to <b>0535+0582</b> for Initial capitals, and <b>0535+0542</b> for all capitals or small capitals. It would also require that 0535+057E for Initial capitals, and 0535+054E for All caps and small caps be changed to 0587 when moving back to lower case.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
There are other Armenian ligatures in Unicode (U+FB13..FB17). I have not yet found my documentation on those glyphs to tell me if they are the same or different in East vs. West.</p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
 </p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>Additional Documentation Problem</b></p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
The Unicode documentation for U+0587 indicates that it is a ligature of U+0587 and U+0582, which is true for Armenian-West, but not for Armenian-East.</p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
 </p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>Recommendation for Supporting Ligature Requirements</b></p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
Where I have two different sets of instructions for the same Unicode value (U+0587), I must have separate language definitions for Armenian-East and Armenian-West to properly handle the casing, etc.</p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
 </p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Hope this helps</p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
 </p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">George</p><p class="" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
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