<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_attr">Dear colleagues,</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">2020年8月15日(土) 2:33 Levantovsky, Vladimir <<a href="mailto:Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com">Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">On Friday, August 14, 2020 1:10 PM Dave Crossland wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:11.55pt">On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:38 PM Levantovsky, Vladimir <<a href="mailto:Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com" target="_blank">Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Input documents (as is the case here) are produced by their contributing members and it’s up to them whether they decide to make them public. In this particular case, the liaison
letter from SC34 isn’t public and is only accessible to accredited members of the SC29 behind the login,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:11.55pt">I see. That is disappointing. Is a summary available? <u></u><u></u></p>
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</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Murata-san has been directly involved in the process of authoring the SC34 liaison, I’d like to delegate it to him to provide us with the summary.</span><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent">Since ISO/IEC directives do not allow me to disclose the liaison statement here, let me give a summary as well as some historical background from the <span class="gmail-il">SC34</span>'s point of view.<br><br>Fonts are in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_JTC_1/SC_34#Scope" target="_blank">the scope of <span class="gmail-il">SC34</span></a>. But SC29 started standardization of OFF anyway and claimed OFF is in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_JTC_1/SC_29" target="_blank">its then scope</a>. <span class="gmail-il">SC34</span> has spoken with SC29 (on and off) without much success.<br><br>In its recent liaison statement to SC29, SC 34 has offered to collaborate with SC 29 in a Joint Working Group. SC 34’s offer was discussed by SC 29/WG 11, which at the time was responsible for OFF (but has been disbanded recently). SC 29/WG 11 decided that <span class="gmail-il">SC34</span> did not provide sufficient justification to start a revision project, so recommended to SC 29 not to start a revision project and not to form a Joint Working Group with SC 34 to handle the revision. While OFF remains the responsibility of SC 29 within JTC 1, there is nothing that SC 34 can do to revise OFF.<br><br>Since <span class="gmail-il">SC34</span> has document format standards (OOXML, ODF, and EPUB), <span class="gmail-il">SC34</span> cares about interactions of fonts and document processing. <span class="gmail-il">SC34</span> feels that interactions between fonts and document rendering applications have not been clearly defined. In our understanding, different applications interact with fonts in different ways and this leads to divergent behavior. However, users expect that modern applications connected by the Internet exhibit behavior that is predictable and consistent. In particular, users expect that different web browsers on different platforms provide reasonably similar results when rendering documents.<br><br><span class="gmail-il">SC34</span> is very interested in collaborating with any experts who share our views about the limitations of OFF. <br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Regards,</div><div>Makoto</div></div></div></div></div>