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conferro
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April 18, 2011
Question

Does TLF support Syriac (RtoL) script like Hebrew and Arabic?

  • April 18, 2011
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Here is what I noticed when I pasted a text in Adobe's text layout demo site for a sample Syriac text. The text is not rendered correctly (what you see is the isolated forms of each character):

The corrected form should look like this (as pasted from MS WORD):

The fonts used are TTF with opentype layout features. Syriac characters, like Arabic, change their shape depending on their contextual position.

what does it take to support Syriac in TLF?

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conferroAuthor
Participant
April 18, 2011

OK, I figured. Thanks! But how do we go about requesting this support? Syriac text rendering is no more complex than Arabic. I was in involved with developing the Syriac rendering specifications for Windows uniscribe engine. The specs are available and be re-used for TLF.

thanks

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Anonymous
April 18, 2011

You could log a bug: https://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Or you could add an idea to the product you use: http://ideas.adobe.com/labs

I've passed along your interest to my contact on the FTE team.

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Anonymous
April 18, 2011

My understanding is that we would need to add support for Syriac in the Flash Text Engine in Flash Player itself. Syriac is not currently on the list of supported scripts:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WSb2ba3b1aad8a27b0-1b8898a412218ad3df9-8000.html#WS14c3067b34b57c6d4a97343b122ab36a52f-7fff

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