2017-06-18 16:38 GMT+02:00 Mike Maxwell <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu>: > On 6/18/2017 4:04 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > >> as far as I know the Devanagari fonts are either Sanskrit with all >> conjuncts that cannot be switched off or Hindi without the Sanskrit >> conjuncts. >> > > Do other languages that use Devanagari, like Gujarati, use the same > conjuncts as Hindi? >
Gujarati is written in the Gujarati script. Devanagari is used in Marathi and Nepali. There is a Nepali Linux Group, I offered them that I create xindy rules and Steve White asked me about the conjuncts so that he could implement the Nepali language but I got no reply from them. I have no response from Marathi users either but I have some printed documents in Marathi and it seems that the set of conjucts is the same as in nowadays Hindi (Marathi does not use characters with nuktas, thus the name of the Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra is written as प्रियंका चोपड़ा in Hindi newspapers and as प्रियांका चोप्रा in Marathi newspapers). I have not ben to Rajastan so I do not know whether Rajastan, Mevari, Marvari have differences but probably not. So the result is that Marathi is most probably a subset of Hindi hence Language=Hindi can also be used for Marathi. Strictly Marathi font may be unusable for Hindi because the charcters with nuktas and especially their conjuncts and half forms need not be available in the font. I saw such a font a few years ago but it was fixed. Zdeněk Wagner http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz > -- > Mike Maxwell > "My definition of an interesting universe is > one that has the capacity to study itself." > --Stephen Eastmond >
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