On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Swarup <dinban...@sprynet.com> wrote:
> Using a different technique I need to get the glyph of shape "ৰ" to work > with other consonants to form the proper conjuncts. Two possibilities: > > 1) Perhaps as suggested, we could use a code which is a normal consonant > and gives behaviour similar to VA/BA. Only in the font the shape will be > like BA and not the character itself. > > 2) Another thought is to define the BA in private use area of Unicode > with some value, and within the font define it and give rules similar > to VA. Neither of which is a practical solution. You may think of this as a niche demand specific to the work that you are undertaking and, you'd be correct in thinking this. However, the history of Indic language computing is saddled with such niche demands being met and, the past half decade has been spent trying to get everything codified, documented and standardized. This helps when your niche use case doesn't remain niche any more and, there are users other than you who have similar requests. There is a reason that the thread has a repeated resonance of "upstream first". Because it works out the best in the long run. Custom fixes have a bad habit of going stale and unmaintained. This is similar to why kernel folks keep on insisting that drivers be made part of the kernel tree instead of being maintained out of it. If a font needs to be modified to accept this character, there needs to be a reason in place why the font needs to be doing so. But of course, you can always cajole someone to do this for you, but then, you'll have to figure out how to maintain the font and, make it widely available. To go upstream, it needs to be following some steps. This isn't going to be a quick fix. But investing energies on that ensures that it is fixed in a way that is acceptable. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ IndLinux-group mailing list IndLinux-group@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-group
