From fisseha@cig.mot.com Sat Feb 11 17:29:12 1995 Received: from moose.cs.indiana.edu by whale.cs.indiana.edu (5.65c/9.4jsm) id AA05048; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 17:29:11 -0500 Received: from motgate.mot.com by moose.cs.indiana.edu (5.65c/9.4jsm) id AA09881; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 17:29:09 -0500 Received: from pobox.mot.com by motgate.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1 for ) id AA05279; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:29:08 -0600 Received: from po_box.cig.mot.com by pobox.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1 for ) id AA00943; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:29:07 -0600 Received: from gerbil.cig.mot.com (gerbil.cig.mot.com [136.182.7.220]) by po_box.cig.mot.com (8.6.9/SCERG-RELAY-1.11) with ESMTP id RAA10625 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 17:30:13 -0500 Received: (fisseha@localhost) by gerbil.cig.mot.com (8.6.9/SCERG-1.12B) id QAA26493 for dmulholl@cs.indiana.edu; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:29:05 -0600 From: Yonas Fisseha Message-Id: <199502112229.QAA26493@gerbil.cig.mot.com> Subject: Re: wuzup? To: dmulholl@cs.indiana.edu (Daniel Yaqob) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:29:05 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: <199502112219.QAA26455@gerbil.cig.mot.com> from "Daniel Yaqob" at Feb 11, 95 05:19:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1459 Status: R > > > Notice anderson did not explain exactly how software was supposed to > modify the shape of kWa in his example. A convenient way for a software > to do this would be to store an internal font, the easiest way probably, > which then would kindov negate the purpose/point of Unicode. > > Is that a good point against the system or just stupid? i think this is the point that abass raised in his doc. anderson implies that that every character's bitmap image is generated by the primitive bitmaps he has in his table. this is silly (esp for unicode) because: - its impossible to generate every glyph from his incomplete set of primitives - unicode is not supposed to address the physical shapes/forms of glyphs, rather map out the address space for the glyphs. - if he isnt implying that each glyph is constructed from his set of primitives, then only other thing that his system could represent is a way defining an address for every consonant and every vowel and have one character be the concatenation of a paid of these addresses. so in fact you get 32bit addressing. this also goes against the purpose of defining a 16bit standard. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Yonas Fisseha, Software Engineer (708)632-6340 Pager: 0113 Motorola, Wireless System Platforms fisseha@cig.mot.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------