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

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:12:56 -0800 (PST)
Keyur Shroff <key...@ya...> wrote:

> 
> --- 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.

 Yep, even for numeric sign 'eight', they too have different shapes
for hindi & marathi (current one reflects marathi one). Actually there
are variations for some characters in hindi itself eg. 'JHA', varying
according to the region.

> 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. 
> 
 
 Thanks for the suggestions , I will update the font designer to make
the necessary changes.

Regards,
Karunakar