hello,
it seems that after all this hullabullo regarding bangla in linux, we
are back where we started from - we need fonts
it seems that unicode's policy is to provide only the set of *basic*
chars for a particular script - the conjuncts can be constructed from
that set
eg :-
unicode ka+unicode hashanta+unicode ka = unicode kae-ka
this can be achieved only by using opentype fonts, which have tables
that maps sequences of unicode characters to a given, or to a given
sequence, of glyphs in the font.
so we need a bangla unicode compliant opentype font
can anybody tell me about a good editor/creator for opentype fonts -
even if it's for M$ platforms - i'm ready to use it
i've dowloaded pfaedit for Linux - but i don't yet undertsand how to map
sequences of unicode characters there to a given glyph :(
any pointers anyone ??
i might try to hack some font in that....not very confident though :(
-sdg-
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