On 9/22/2023 2:39 PM, Hamid,Idris wrote:
b. we want all Unicode control symbols to be suppressed in final pdf output (for, e.g., printing).
they basically are unless some font features keeps them around which is out of our control
irr it was you who wanted them to be wiped decades ago as some fonts visualized them by default
But therein lies the problem: ConTeXt shows the rendering by default, and we need to turn it off. Since most non-Latin typography targets Uniscribe applications which allows for toggling, the font developers (commercial or free) don't have to concern themselves with this issue.
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Not really -) This brings us to the point of consistency: For Arabic-script fonts, hard symbolic rendering of the Unicode control characters is the rule, not the exception. So not "an inconsistent mess" -- at least not as far as Arabic-script typography is concerned.
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