From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: admin/unidata updates Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:01:10 +0300 Message-ID: <834mz8rkix.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y4wlro71.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403715704 19550 80.91.229.3 (25 Jun 2014 17:01:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:01:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: handa@gnu.org (K. Handa) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 25 19:01:37 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WzqZd-0004Yv-5L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:01:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39945 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WzqZc-000840-OT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:01:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50088) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WzqZV-00083q-5o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:01:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WzqZO-0003cW-Mz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:01:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:63605) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WzqZO-0003cE-F4; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:01:14 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N7Q00500HQJLW00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:01:13 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N7Q00562HY065A0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:01:13 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87y4wlro71.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:172708 Archived-At: > From: handa@gnu.org (K. Handa) > Cc: rgm@gnu.org, mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:41:54 +0900 > > In article <83egyfsklj.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > And I have a couple of questions for Handa-san: > > > . In otf-script-alist, some scripts have the dashes in their names > > replaced with an underscore, but others don't. Is there some > > subtle issue here? Do we need to use underscores instead of > > dashes exclusively (e.g., because XLFD specs disallow dashes in > > font specs)? > > I don't remember now why I used both "-" and "_" in script > names. :-( > But, we don't have to avoid "-" here because XLFD anyway > can't contain a script name. OK, so I guess we can keep using the same names as in characters.el, and see if something breaks one day. > > . setup-default-fontset has a section labeled "for simple scripts". > > What is a "simple script" in this context? > > Such scripts that don't need CTL (Complex Text Layout) > processing, and thus don't require OTF fonts. How does one know whether a given script needs CTL? The practical issue here is whether scripts added to characters.el (because the Unicode Standard added them) should also be added to the list of "simple scripts" in setup-default-fontset. Thanks.