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Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Traditional and Modern Bengali
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Deepayan Sarkar |
Subject: |
Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Traditional and Modern Bengali |
Date: |
Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:17:50 -0600 |
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On Tuesday 03 February 2004 07:15, Anirban Mitra wrote:
> As both Bangladesh and West Bengal authorities have decided to do
> away with complex conjuncts [ except KSha and JNya] and post base
> matras [ such as ra-ukaar] in Bengali schoolbooks, it is high time
> to register two varieties of Bengali script - one traditional { as
> used today - based on original typeset designed by Panchanan
> Karmakar}and other Reformed or Schoolbook bengali [in the lines of
> Traditional & Modern Malayalam] and the bengali OT specs should be
> refined likewise.
Isn't it enough to just have a different version of the fonts with the
relevant lookups removed ?