On 04/05/2012 12:00 AM, Swarup wrote: > Hello Pravin, > I am writing from Sanskrita Pracara Sabha; we are a non-for-profit > dedicated to preparing Sanskrita shlokas in the local languages of the > states throughout India. Now we are working on transcribing over 700 > shlokas into Shriiharsa (Bangla) script, and for that we need to make a > slight adjustment in one char of the font. For writing Samskritam it > needs a separate BA and VA, while as you know in Bangla there is only > one char for the two sounds, both being pronounced BA. In Shriiharsa > script, to transcribe the Samskritam shlokas we use the Bangla ব (U > +09AC) for the sound VA, and ৰ (U+09F0) for BA. But we need the ৰ (U > +09F0) to behave the same as ব (U+09AC) with consonant conjuncts. The > vowel conjuncts are no problem, but for the consonant conjuncts, we just > need an assignment of the same rules to (U+09F0) as occur with (U+09AC). > Would you be able to help me out by making such an edit to your Lohit > Bangla font, and then sending it to me?
Hi Swarup, I saw some discussion already regarding this on Indlinux so adding it into cc. 1. As per the standard U+09F0 is Assamese 'Ra' character and has given property of 'ra' in rendering engine, so modifying font will not make any difference. At the most one can change shape of Reph (U+09F0 U+09CD) to Half Ba but it will have same behaviour of Reph. i.e. it will move it at the end of syllable. 2. Rendering engines will not accept this changes since it is not as per the standard and will break Assamese language rendering badly i.e. using "BENGALI LETTER RA WITH MIDDLE DIAGONAL" as a BA since no shape available. In past we have seen such complex things but in long term one required standardize solution. In future if anyone open data created, it should get displayed in same way irrespective of the platform and font selected. I will suggest you to write this peculiar case to Indic Unicode list and get some suggestions. Best Regards, Pravin Satpute ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ IndLinux-group mailing list IndLinux-group@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-group
