Had a look at Charis SIL

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Jeu 24 juillet 2008 22:52, Vasile Gaburici a écrit :
>
> It uses *lots* of multiple (ligature-type) substitutions, sprinkled
> with some context-based substitutions, and some single substitutions
> in multiple ccmp tables (some tables are class-based, some glyph
> based). It's unlike any of the simple stuff that Adobe or other fonts
> do. I wonder how they maintain all that... Does anyone know if they
> have their own production tools?

You should visit SIL's site (or read the bit of our wiki that talks
about foundries). Those guys are serious about i18n and they use all
the tricks in the book to manage it. They even have their own smart
font tech, graphite. Adobe really does not play in the same space.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot