[Freebangfont-devel] Re: [Bengalinux-core] Conjunct encoding/representation?

[Shaheed R. Haque]

Sayamindu,

Hi...I think you have given me at least half the answer...

> Actually, as far as I understand, the usage of the private area is
> immaterial. The glyphs there are never called directly. The position is
> defined in the OTF tables, and that handles all the hard stuff. For
> example, if you have a glyph cluster of Ka Hasanta Ka, the tables will
> substitute that cluster with a single glyph for Kae-Ka.

OK, it sounds like these OTF tables include the logic I was trying to describe. 
So now, the remaining part of my question is: can these tables be standardised? 
I assume that if they could, then it would CONSIDERABLY reduce the effort of 
designing a font that included conjuncts?

Or am I dreaming?