From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: etc/HELLO markup etc. Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 18:04:14 +0200 Message-ID: <83tvj48c1t.fsf@gnu.org> References: <838t0iasju.fsf@gnu.org> <83zhsw8d1o.fsf@gnu.org> <20181223.165314.1958939725817162183.wl@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1545580954 25479 195.159.176.226 (23 Dec 2018 16:02:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 16:02:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: yurivkhan@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, Emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, handa@gnu.org To: Werner LEMBERG Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 23 17:02:30 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gb6D0-0006Vn-0N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2018 17:02:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50059 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gb6F6-0007Hw-De for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2018 11:04:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43868) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gb6Ey-0007Hk-Q5 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2018 11:04:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gb6Ey-0004nE-1q for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2018 11:04:32 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55972) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gb6Er-0004bf-LX; Sun, 23 Dec 2018 11:04:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2646 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gb6Er-0005Yn-8k; Sun, 23 Dec 2018 11:04:25 -0500 In-reply-to: <20181223.165314.1958939725817162183.wl@gnu.org> (message from Werner LEMBERG on Sun, 23 Dec 2018 16:53:14 +0100 (CET)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231968 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 16:53:14 +0100 (CET) > Cc: yurivkhan@gmail.com, handa@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, > monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Werner LEMBERG > > > Finally, regarding the special handling of italics in Serbian: is > > there _any_ application out there that solves this problem > > satisfactorily in multilingual environment? I'm not sure how you > > could go about that, since fonts generally cover scripts, and > > there's no special Serbian Cyrillic script, there's just Cyrl to > > cover them all. > > OpenType fonts provide a language tag (in addition to a script tag) to > handle this. Yes, but aren't these tags used only to select fonts that have features required by the language's shaping requirements? That's what Emacs does with those.