Re: [Indic-computing-devel] glyphs for upcoming devanagari font

[Keyur S. <key...@ya...>]

--- Guntupalli Karunakar <kar...@fr...> wrote:
> Hi, 
>   Please check out the preview of glyphs in the upcoming
> Devanagari
> opentype font at     
>    http://www.indlinux.org/fonts/ 

I think you have missed out Zero-Width-Joiner (U+200D) and
Zero-Width-NonJoiner (U+200C) in your font. As you must be
knowing, these Unicode characters have special treament
with respect to Indic scripts. Even if these characters are
non-printing characters, they should have some shape in the
font and you can omit their glyphs from being displayed by
putting appropriate rules in the GSUB table.

Moreover there should be two different glyphs for 'numeric
sign five' as they have different shapes in Hindi and
Marathi. Appropriate glyphs should be chosen depending on
the language selection in the font.

I also don't see the glyphs for Udatta, Anudatta, Acute
Accent and Grave Accent. I suggest that your Unicode
encoded font should contain all glyphs from Unicode under
Devanagari range even if your font supports only Hindi and
Marathi languages. 

Regards,
Keyur



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