Thread: [sinhala-technical] Looking for someone with access to a MS Windows Vista system
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From: Harshula <har...@gm...> - 2007-05-12 03:00:42
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Hi, I've been trying to find a system running MS Windows Vista but I've been unsuccessful. If anyone has access to MS Windows Vista, could you please find the Kannada font, named Tunga, and inspect it using a font editing program? Check if ZWJ is used in GSUB lookups the way ZWJ is used in Sinhala for rakaaranshaya and yansaya. Thanks, # |
From: Bhikkhu M. <met...@gm...> - 2007-05-12 06:09:17
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Hello Harshula, I have access to a Vista Home edition Please give me the Unicode values for me to look I am using fontforge for windows to find with metta Mettavihari I've been trying to find a system running MS Windows Vista but I've been unsuccessful. If anyone has access to MS Windows Vista, could you please find the Kannada font, named Tunga, and inspect it using a font editing program? Check if ZWJ is used in GSUB lookups the way ZWJ is used in Sinhala for rakaaranshaya and yansaya. Thanks, # -- Get you GNU/Linux supplies at http://thelinuxcenter.lk | | -----------------------| |--------------------------- Bus Route 138 Nugegoda Junction <- Thummulla Maharagama -> -----------------------| |--------------------------- | | S.De.S.Jayasinghe Mawatha | | | | 138/1, | | The Linux Center |
From: Harshula <har...@gm...> - 2007-05-12 07:11:09
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Hi, ZWJ = U+200D Apparently the Kannada font's name is Tunga. 1) The font might have a glyph for U+200D, in which case it could be labelled any valid string. So the first step is to determine the label given to U+200D. 2) Once you work out the label given to U+200D, then search for the label being used in "Ligature" sections of the font. e.g. ----------------------------------------------------- Ligature: 0 0 'vatu' uni0DB6 uni0DCA uni200D uni0DBB ----------------------------------------------------- Thanks for looking into this. cya, # On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 11:39 +0530, Bhikkhu Mettavihari wrote: > Hello Harshula, > > I have access to a Vista Home edition > Please give me the Unicode values for me to look > I am using fontforge for windows to find > > with metta > Mettavihari > > > I've been trying to find a system running MS Windows Vista but I've been > unsuccessful. > > If anyone has access to MS Windows Vista, could you please find the > Kannada font, named Tunga, and inspect it using a font editing program? > > Check if ZWJ is used in GSUB lookups the way ZWJ is used in Sinhala for > rakaaranshaya and yansaya. > > Thanks, > # |
From: Bhikkhu M. <met...@gm...> - 2007-05-14 09:54:37
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Hi, > ZWJ =3D U+200D > Apparently the Kannada font's name is Tunga. Font name is Tunga, > 1) The font might have a glyph for U+200D, in which case it could be > labelled any valid string. So the first step is to determine the label > given to U+200D. ZWspace =3D U+200B ZWNJ =3D U+200C ZWJ =3D U+200D > 2) Once you work out the label given to U+200D, then search for the > label being used in "Ligature" sections of the font. e.g. i DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS. What do you mean Ligature section of the font. There are many places in the font that are called ligature section. > ----------------------------------------------------- > Ligature: 0 0 'vatu' uni0DB6 uni0DCA uni200D uni0DBB > ----------------------------------------------------- Please explain this in detail. U0DCA U0DB6 U0DBB are in the sinhala area What do you mean with =A8Ligature: 0 0 =B4vatu=B4=A8 with metta Mettavihari --=20 Get you GNU/Linux supplies at http://thelinuxcenter.lk | | -----------------------| |--------------------------- Bus Route 138 Nugegoda Junction <- Thummulla Maharagama -> -----------------------| |--------------------------- | | S.De.S.Jayasinghe Mawatha | | | | 138/1, | | The Linux Center |
From: Harshula <har...@gm...> - 2007-05-24 15:56:48
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Hi Ven Mettavihari, On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:24 +0530, Bhikkhu Mettavihari wrote: > ZWspace = U+200B > ZWNJ = U+200C > ZWJ = U+200D > > > 2) Once you work out the label given to U+200D, then search for the > > label being used in "Ligature" sections of the font. e.g. > > i DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS. > What do you mean Ligature section of the font. > There are many places in the font that are called ligature section. That's exactly why I said "sections". In fontforge, I usually save the font file as a ".sfd" because it's just a text file. Then I use regular expressions to search for what I'm looking for. I'm not sure how to do this quickly using the fontforge GUI. I noticed there is a menu item "View" -> "Combinations" -> "Ligatures" which lists all the ligatures. It might take a little while to visually search for ZWJ in the list. > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Ligature: 0 0 'vatu' uni0DB6 uni0DCA uni200D uni0DBB > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Please explain this in detail. > U0DCA U0DB6 U0DBB are in the sinhala area > What do you mean with ¨Ligature: 0 0 ´vatu´¨ When I look through a .sfd file I search for sections containing the aforementioned syntax/format. If you are going to use the fontforge GUI, please ignore the aforementioned example. cya, # |