[Freebangfont-devel] Re: [indic] Re: On the Bengali Proposal

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Saturday 20 September 2003 11:14, you wrote:
> Hi Depayan
>
> I do not wish to continue this conversation on the Indic Unicode list. It
> has become off topic to the subject title and has gone on long enough I
> think. Also I want to discuss MS's USP, which is of topic for that list.

I agree.

> One point I must respond to is this. Vowel signs do not need to be rendered
> on a dotted circle. I think it is the fact that Microsoft's implementation
> did this first that a general misconception has occurred.
>
> In fact, Microsoft's USP provides the facility of entering stand alone
> vowel signs by entering a sequence such as SPACE ZWJ IKAAR etc. Unicode
> does not endorse this scheme because they say that entering just IKAAR on
> its own should do the same thing.

Hmm, that indeed was the source of my confusion. 

To FBF-devel: Maybe we should try to convince the pango and Qt people to omit 
the dotted circle rendering.

Deepayan