| Summary: | ka.orth and Georgian capital forms | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | fontconfig | Reporter: | Owen Taylor <otaylor> |
| Component: | library | Assignee: | Keith Packard <keithp> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 2.2 | ||
| Hardware: | x86 (IA32) | ||
| OS: | Linux (All) | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
| Attachments: | Patch fixing ka.orth | ||
Created attachment 58 [details] [review] Patch fixing ka.orth 2003-09-23 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> * fc-lang/ka.orth: Remove Georgian capitals, they aren't used for normal writing. (Bug #116) |
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I believe that ka.orth (Georgian) should not include the range from U+10A0 to U+10C5, Reasoning: - Section 7.5 of the Unicode standard says: Case Forms. The Georgian alphabet is fundamentally caseless and is used as such in most texts. The scholar Akaki Shanidze attempted to introduce a casing practice for Georgian in the 1950s, but it failed to gain popularity. In this typographic departure, the Asomtavruli forms serve to represent uppercase letters, while the lowercase is Mkhedruli or Nuskhuri. [...] The Unicode encoding of Georgian follows the Latin analogy: The range U+10A0..U+10CF is used to encode the uppercase capital forms (Asomtavruli), and the basic alphabetic range U+10D0..U+10FF may be regarded as lowercase (Mkhedruli or Nuskhuri). [...] - The font that Microsoft ships with Windows XP that covers Georgian (SylfaenARM) includes only the lowercase forms, so currently does not get picked up by ka.orth.