Re: [Freetengwar] Telcontar Feature IDs

[Arno G. <arn...@gm...>]

> I have made some tests of my own. I am pleasantly surprised.

That is fantastic news! 

> Microsoft Edge will
> not, though. Not because it is dumb (like the Internet
> Explorer). On the contrary, it appears to have a solid OTL
> renderer. I guess it is because, strictly speaking, the PUA
> falls outside the scope of the OTL. The OTL specification
> only applies to pre-defined scripts, so it is agnostic of
> the PUA. Therefore, you can never be quite sure what you
> will get when using the OTL on PUA characters. That is quite
> different from Graphite (or AAT) where you will get exactly
> what you have programmed.

I'll try to see if I can get a contact at Microsoft with whom we could discuss this. It would seem reasonable to support OTL everywhere, include PUA range, except for the character range that have some other layout algorithm specified, which seems to be what other renderers are doing.

Best,
Arno.