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RE: Excitement! FM7?

At 03:13 PM 4/9/02 -0700, Lee Richardson wrote:

>At 3:32 AM -0700 4/9/02, Dan Emory wrote:
>
> >Thus, it is clear that FM7's "internal character set" is the same as it 
> was in FM6, probably including the 6 locked code points that make it 
> impossible, with ordinary fonts, to use FM7 for Eastern and Central 
> European languages, as well as for Cyrillic languages. The only 
> workaround is to use country-specific fonts which, according to Dmitri 
> and others, get around the locked code point impasse.
>
>This is correct- FM7 will round-trip XML containing any code point in the 
>Unicode 3.0 spec, but will only display characters already existing in its 
>current internal character set, plus CJK. Unknown characters are embedded 
>in markers. FM7 includes an implementation of the Apache ICU library, with 
>configurable encoding translation tables, used for XML translation and a 
>bit of PDF export. ICU is a great technology base to build on, as Unicode 
>support is moved into the core product.
Does that mean the Apache configurable encoding translation tables can be 
modified so as to map code points in a country-specific font for, say 
Cyrillic to the corresponding Unicode code points in the Cyrillic language?
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