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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2024-09-28 06:41, William_J_G
Overington via mpeg-otspec wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:307aa3db.32539.19238dd052d.Webtop.184@btinternet.com">
<p><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:18px;">Well,
I am suggesting the substitution from the displaying of glyphs
for</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:18px;">!983</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:18px;">to
the displaying of glyphs for </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:18px;">Diolch
am ymweld.</span></p>
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<p>I understand what you are proposing, but you have not
demonstrated any value in doing this at the glyph level.</p>
<p>Fonts are media for typography. The way in which they work and
how they relate to text encoding is particular to the needs of
typography, which is to say that they are designed to enable
flexible stylistic representation of text with more or less
idiosyncratic features at the glyph level in terms of both design
and behaviour. Purely standardised behaviours, i.e.
non-idiosyncratic features, are best defined outside the scope of
individual fonts, at e.g. the text encoding or higher level.
Unsurprisingly, that is exactly where text string localisation is
done, with the great benefit that the localised strings <i>can be
displayed by any font supporting the target writing system</i>.
You are proposing breaking something that already works in order
to make it work in a more convoluted and less useful way.<br>
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<p>JH<br>
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