Re: Fw: Latin Script Danda
On 4/19/2019 6:57 PM, Shriramana Sharma via Unicode wrote: I don't know many modern fonts that display 007C as a broken glyph. In fact I haven't seen a broken line pipe glyph since the MS-DOS days. Nowadays we have 00A6 for that. Same here. In fact, couldn't find any example among installed fonts on a Windows 7 (not even Windows 10) system before running out of patience. That seems to indicate that the disunification of vertical bar and broken bar was complete 10 years ago. A./
Re: Fw: Latin Script Danda
I don't know many modern fonts that display 007C as a broken glyph. In fact I haven't seen a broken line pipe glyph since the MS-DOS days. Nowadays we have 00A6 for that.
Fw: Latin Script Danda
Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:30:32 +0100 From: Richard Wordingham To: Shriramana Sharma Subject: Re: Latin Script Danda On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:33:35 +0530 Shriramana Sharma via Unicode wrote: > We are using the pipe character as it is readily available in our > favourite Latin script fonts. See for example: > https://twitter.com/ShriramanaS/status/793480884116529152 The broken bar glyph of the pipe character does not feel appropriate. > It would be ideal for Sanskrit/Indic text in IAST/ISO to be > displayable/printable using any common Latin font which is found > typographically pleasant. For instance the font I have used in that > Twitter post is Gentium Basic. I use this font for most of my Latin > script publication purposes (including Unicode documents) and it > contains the pipe character but it does not contain Devanagari > characters. > It would be difficult to canvas Latin font vendors to include the > Devanagari characters 0964/0965 on a small technicality of character > property. Font designers for many Indic scripts have had to learn that U+0964 and U+0965 have the script property of 'Common', not Devanagari. I don't trust automated font pickers in that respect, though. > Is there a particular reason it's *really* necessary to include Latn > in the script extension property of 0964/0965? No more so than including Indian scripts in the list. There has been a threat to use the script extension property in breaking text into script runs, and U+0964 and U+0965 are often better with script-sensitive forms. Richard.
Re: Latin Script Danda
We are using the pipe character as it is readily available in our favourite Latin script fonts. See for example: https://twitter.com/ShriramanaS/status/793480884116529152 It would be ideal for Sanskrit/Indic text in IAST/ISO to be displayable/printable using any common Latin font which is found typographically pleasant. For instance the font I have used in that Twitter post is Gentium Basic. I use this font for most of my Latin script publication purposes (including Unicode documents) and it contains the pipe character but it does not contain Devanagari characters. It would be difficult to canvas Latin font vendors to include the Devanagari characters 0964/0965 on a small technicality of character property. Is there a particular reason it's *really* necessary to include Latn in the script extension property of 0964/0965? -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ူ၆ိျိါအူိ၆ါး
Latin Script Danda
Which character should one use for a danda in the Latin script? I believed normal usage is to use U+0964 DEVANAGARI DANDA, but for some reason its script extension property does not include the Latin script. Richard.
