- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:05:39 -0400
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
Richard Ishida scripsit:
> >Is this implying (though not stating, note), that the text should be
> >normalized so that the glyph for the canonically equivalent character
> >can be used? (I'm not sure that's a good idea.)
> >
> >Or is the meaning that if the font has a glyph for the precomposed
> >character that is canonically equivalent to the sequence of characters,
> >then that glyph should be used (without changing the sequence of
> >characters itself). That would seem to make more sense.
You are over-interpreting step 1. Its sole purpose is to pick candidate
fonts, not to make decisions about rendering individual characters.
If a font either has the desired characters, or has a single character
that is canonically equivalent to the desired characters -- then it is a
candidate font, otherwise not.
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