Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Re: [Ankur-core] RE: Update on National Unicode Workshop & Bengali Proposal on Indic m/l

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 00:02, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 October 2003 02:33, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 02:32, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> > > [replying just to ankur-core]
> > >
> > > I think there's nothing for us to do really, since we are happy with the
> > > way things currently are. It's difficult to say that we oppose such and
> > > such proposals even before they are made. So let's just wait and watch
> > > for now.
> >

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> issue 1: khanda ta
> ------------------
> 
> The current recommendation to encode khanda ta is 'ta + hasanta + ZWJ', which 
> is clearly insufficient. For example,  
> 
> cons1 + ta + hasanta + ZWJ +  cons2 + ikaar
> 
> will be rendered wrongly (the reordered ikaar would go before and not after 
> the khanda ta). A possible fix (already suggested by Paul Nelson) to the 
> problem is to encode khanda ta as 'ta + hasanta + ZWJ + ZWNJ'. However, we 
> believe (at least I do. Comments anyone ?)

Not much - expect that I concur.

>  that a much more elegant and 
> natural solution is the one outlined by Andy White in a recent post to the 
> address@hidden list, and described in
> 
> http://www.exnet.btinternet.co.uk/uniprop/KhandaTaEncode.pdf
> 
> I realise that this would need all fonts to be modified slightly (though not 
> opentype rendering implementations), but given that the current recommended 
> encoding needs a change anyway, I think the gain in simplicity will be worth 
> the little extra trouble.
> 
> 
> Issue 2: ra + yaphala
> ---------------------
> 
> The proposal by Paul Nelson for handling ra+yafala/ya-reph also seems to be 
> quite reasonable to us. 
> 
> [What was the rule again ? Sayamindu ?]

Ra + ZWNJ + hashanta + ya -> ra yafala (AFAIK)

-sdg-