[Freebangfont-devel] [Bug 130966] Changed - Support for the "init" feature in Bengali - as specified in the MS OpenType specs

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Changed by address@hidden

--- shadow/130966       Thu Feb 19 18:02:20 2004
+++ shadow/130966.tmp.4525      Sun Feb 22 13:19:43 2004
@@ -105,6 +105,33 @@
 the full form of consonants. The initial form applies to the following
 Unicode letters:
 
   And then doesn't list the characters! the example, if I 
   read it correctly is for DA + E which doesn't seem to be 
   consonants at all!
+
+------- Additional Comments From address@hidden  2004-02-22 13:19 -------
+Yikes! Sorry for all those bad code ;-)
+
+I spoke to some people who do Bengali DTP work, and it seems that they
+would like to have the init feature in strings like abcdeমো , ie
+English text followed directly by Bengali text (without any
+space/punctuation in between). The only exception to the above rule is
+in cases where we have ZWNJ as the preceding character, where the init
+feature feature need not be applied. So your second proposal ("to
+check to see if the previous character was a bengali character") looks
+better to me - we just need to take care of the ZWNJ exception. I
+would like to hear the opinions of the members of the
+freebangfont-devel list on this issue.
+
+I agree that the M$ text is confusing, but after looking at certain
+posts at the address@hidden list, I think that we are on the right
+track :-).
+
+Also, if rumours are correct, Microsoft will be releasing the Bengali
+pack for WinXP and 2K very soon (within the next two months). So then
+we can see how the engine behaves and if required, correct the behaviour. 
+
+As far as I know, the Init feature is applied to only U+09C7 and
+U+09C8 (and as a consequent, U+09CB and U+09CC)- but I would speak to
+some people who regularly use Bengali word processing software, and
+verify that I am correct.