On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Shriramana Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: ttf-malayalam-fonts > Version: 1:0.5.14 > > The Rachana Malayalam font that is distributed with Debian shows the > wrong glyph for 0D66 MALAYALAM DIGIT ZERO. > > I have separately reported bug #661905 that this font displays many > encoded characters wrongly as ® or as full stop. Those are purely bad > glyphs intended as fillers which should be removed. However this is a > different bug. > > The glyph already existing in the font for 0D66 MALAYALAM DIGIT ZERO > is actually that of the later encoded 0D73 MALAYALAM FRACTION ONE > QUARTER. Previously the old Unicode chart had this wrong glyph, > however the current chart has been updated to show the actual > Malayalam digit zero which is just like the other zeroes of (South) > Indian scripts: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0D00.pdf
Please consider this as a style variation of that glyph chosen by the designers. Have a close look at zero glyph and fraction one quarter glyph, they are not same, the quarter glyph has a long tail and small round shape in left part. The zero with out full circle and small tail was chosen after studying palm leaves and old printing. If you use a stylus and write a full circle in a palm leaf, if the pressure applied is a bit more , the result will be a hole in the leaf. So zero used to be written in palm leaves without a full circle. Exceptions are also there. In old printing zero used to write using full circle. So the current glyph used is not accidental, just a conscious style variation design by designer. Thanks Santhosh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
