Hello Runa , Praveen, While testing the Chandrabindu</x> character , we should also test other special characters for Bengali like (i) Khanda ta , (ii) Bisharga and (iii) Ya phala. Have you tested all these characters with Hurfbuzz engines. Regards, Somnath , W3C India On 02/10/12, Runa Bhattacharjee <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On শুক্রবার 10 ফেব্রুয়ারি 2012 10:04 , Pravin Satpute wrote: > > On 02/10/2012 04:06 AM, Peter Hunter wrote: > >> > >> G’day all > >> > >> I am using Harfbuzz (not ng) to layout Bengali text > >> > >> The Chandrabindu</x> character (Bengali U+981) at the start of a line is > >> positioned by Harfbuzz above the Unicode character dotted circle (U+25cc) > >> > >> My users tell me that the Chandrabindu</x> character “ is used at the > >> beginning of a line to denote the bengali "Iswar" (Late) word. > >> > >> So, it is usually used as the first character before a name of a person, > >> who is dead”. > >> > > > > Users expecting U+09FA[1] character, nothing to do with OTLS engine. > > > > Hello, > > To add context to the above - these are two different characters that look > similar. The Chandrabindu</x> (U+981) is essentially a diacritic while the > Ishwar > (U+09FA) is used at the start of the name of a deceased person (pronounced as > 'Ishwar' for males and 'Ishwari' for females). While the latter occurs at the > start of a word, the Chandrabindu</x> requires a preceding character to be > present > in a word it is used in. > > Hope this helps > > regards > Runa > > -- > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Runab > _______________________________________________ > HarfBuzz mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz > > -- Dr. Somnath Chandra Scientist-D Dept. of Information Technology Govt. of India Tel:+91-11-24364744,24301811 Fax: +91-11-24363099 e-mail :[email protected]
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