Re: [Freebangfont-devel] khanda ta

[Deepayan Sarkar]

Well, guess what ? Pango doesn't handle this properly -- it seems to think ZWJ 
is the same as ZWNJ. Which means all instances of what should be khanda ta is 
displayed as ta-e-hasanta. What should we do now ?

As a temporary measure, we could use the khanda ta glyph in place of the 
ta-e-hasanta glyph. This would mean that correctly encoded khanda ta's would 
be displayed correctly (though interpreted incorrectly), but ta-e-hasanta's 
would not be displayed correctly (which is no worse than what happens now).

I think we need to get pango/freetype to fix these problems. Does anyone know 
what the appropriate forums to report these are ?

On Wednesday 07 May 2003 12:01 pm, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 May 2003 7:44 am, Deepayan Sarkar said in public:
> > While looking at http://www.unicode.org/faq/indic.html, I saw the section
> > on khanda ta, and it seems we are doing things a bit differently from
> > what they have suggested. To be precise, we (at least I) place the khanda
> > ta glyph as the halant form of ta, rather than the half form as they have
> > suggested. The usage would be slightly different, for example, a khanda
> > ta at the end of a word will have to be encoded as
> >
> > ta + hasanta + ZWJ
> >
> > and not just ta + hasanta. I think we should change things to fit this
> > rule. Anyone have any thoughts on this ?
>
> OK - change this in the Template font.
> Also, the next update for all fonts should carry this fix.
> -sdg-