Re: Mad idea

[abdulhaq <al-arabeyes at alinsyria dot fsnet dot co dot uk>]

Don't worry, I know nothing about the history etc. of unicode and I'm not 
proposing any change to the existing meaning of it in any way. No one would 
even dream of taking any notice of me in any case.

I cannot speak for Thomas when it comes to unicode matters (or about anything 
for that matter) but it's obvious that he is a man of many talents and that 
he is deeply involved in unicode.

Where I was coming from was in the rendering arena. I noted in my 
'brainstorm' that any fine-tuning of rendering by the author would need to 
be stored as parameters somehow and somewhere. This would not mean any 
change to the character encoding standard, but more of an attachment that 
would indicate to the renderer how the author wants the writing to look.

I'm just sharing with people a dream of being able to represent arabic in 
beautiful way on the computer.

و السلام

abdulhaq


On Saturday 12 June 2004 08:53, Mete Kural wrote:
> Salaam Nadim,
>
> > I'd guess
> > unicode would favor incremental changes as opposed
> > to major
> > overhauls/shifts (just a thought).
> >
> >From my limited understanding of the issue, the
>
> changes that Tom is proposing intend to more clearly
> define the currently existing codepoints in the
> Unicode Arabic block in order to standardize the way
> font technologies render these codepoints.