Re: [sinhala-technical] Sinhala Support

[Nicholas S. <co...@ni...>]

On 24 Jun 2008, at 2:36 pm, Tom Gewecke wrote:

> On Jun 24, 2008, at 4:03 AM, Nicholas Shanks wrote:
>
>> glyph 254-256 (yans, yans + _u and yans + _uu) can be generated by  
>> the unicode sequences:
>>
>> ක්ය = U+D9A U+DCA U+DBA
>> ක්යු = U+D9A U+DCA U+DBA U+DD4
>> ක්යූ = U+D9A U+DCA U+DBA U+DD6
>>
>> I am aware that these sequences are normally typed with a zero  
>> width joiner, and am aware that doing so doesn't work in my font (I  
>> spent several hours trying to get the zwj to be parsed/ignored/ 
>> whatever but had no luck).
>
> So should the key for making yans ideally produce the codes zwj +  
> dca + dba?
>
> Tom

I don't know, sorry. Does anyone on the technical mailing list know?
Tom is trying to make a Wijesekera layout for the Mac. The problem is  
that my Mac version of Malithi Web doesn't work with the zwj  
character. So should Tom's keyboard layout produce it (and thus it  
will look wrong when typed or viewed with my font) or omit it, so it  
looks correct, but I don't know if it will work with other fonts that  
handle zwj (but might not handle it if it were missing).

— Nicholas Shanks.