Re: Unicode version of Lout

[Wolfram Kahl]

 > Chinese, I believe, can go in at least
 > two directions, for example.

Yes.

1) Traditional:             7  4  1
                            8  5  2
                            9  6  3

2) ``Westernised'' (standard direction in the PRC)
   as English

3) ``Headings'' for traditional (above text),
    also for example above temple gates:

                           3 2 1


With Unicode, there is also the problem of finding the right appearance
of the same character in different languages:

In the Unicode standard (at home) it says when discussing I think Koptic
characters, that these are mostly the same characters as Greek,
but with different shapes, plus some specific Koptic characters.
So from the font side there will be the problem to associate a different
glyph for perhaps @Char{Eta} depending on {Greek} @Language or
{Koptic} @Language.

I haven't looked into it yet, but I suspect that the same happens for
traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese and Japanese
(just look at the bottom of the samples page in Emacs20/Mule for examples
 of different glyphs for the ``same character'' in all three settings).


Wolfram