Hi Clytie, trying again to send this to the relevant ML since I guess other people are very interested in your useful comments
regards, Davide ----- Forwarded message from Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > On 31/10/2006, at 5:37 AM, Davide Viti wrote: > > >I took some screenshots using latest dejavu 2.11; please refer to [1] > >to see what changed since last version. > > > >The screenshots can be found in [2], and in case you wanted to > >compare them to those > >taken using the previous version, see [3] > > > >feedback is very welcome > > > For Vietnamese: some characters are still difficult to distinguish > because: > > 1. They blend into each other. For example, the combined circumflex > and tilde above (0x1ED7), the combined breve and tilde above > (0x1EB5), the combined circumflex and acute above (0x1EA5), and the > combined circumflex and hook above (0x1ED5). > > 2. The o with hook on the RHS (0x01A1), blends into the following > character in a word. > > 3. They are too close to the vowel: e.g. the hook above (e.g. 0x1ECF) > blends into the vowel beneath. > > 4. They are off-centre, e.g. the dot underneath the vowel (e.g. > 0x1EA1) does not appear to be exactly aligned with the vertical axis > of the glyph. It should be precisely centred. It appears to be > slightly to the left of that position. > > 5. They are too far from the parent vowel, e.g. the breve (e.g. > 0x1EB7) is too far above the vowel. > > I've attached screenshots of each sample character > mentioned, in Dejavu, Lucida Grande (the OSX default pan-Unicode > font) and Vu Phu Tho, a font designed for Vietnamese. Lucida Grande > and VPT still display Vietnamese much more clearly than DV. > > This is due to positioning and weight of accents. You will notice how > fine the accents are in Vu Phu Tho. The fineness and exact > positioning of accents is essential in displaying Vietnamese. > > I hope this is useful. :) > > from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm > Việt hóa phần mềm tự do) > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN > >
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