Re: Unicode 8.0?

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:40:06 +0100
Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 11:53 +0200, Viktor Kovács wrote:
> > I would like to ask when will be adopted Old Hungarian fonts. It is
> > defined in the UNICODE 8.0, central-europe subgroup, and it must be
> > typed right to left writing.
>
> The underlying requirement will be a version of icu that supports
> unicode 8, so someone needs to bump the icu version we're building
> against to version 56, and that's only at milestone 1 level at the
> moment so apparently not ready for stable use yet.
>
> I imagine then there would be a need to extend the RTL support to
> include some additional language if there is a serious attempt to
> support this as a real thing.

Viktor, Have you tried LibreOffice with an Old Hungarian font of your
own?

ICU should have known years ago that the part of the SMP used for this
script is reserved for right-to-left scripts.  For the Bidi algorithm,
the characters had the appropriate properties long before they were
assigned to 'Old Hungarian'.

If you need to specify the language, I suggest you set it to
Hebrew.

Richard.