[Freebangfont-devel] [Bug 118299] Changed - Treat BENGALI LETTER A as consonant

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--- shadow/118299       Mon Feb 23 14:48:07 2004
+++ shadow/118299.tmp.26857     Tue Feb 24 13:36:50 2004
@@ -127,6 +127,20 @@
 should be allowed to form a reph with the vowel 098B. This is required
 for the Bengali word "Nairhit" and afaik, the latest beta of Uniscribe
 forms a reph (We had some discussion with Paul Nelson of Microsoft
 Typography on this - if you want I can forward the related emails to
 you) - or do I file this as yet another bug? 
 
+
+------- Additional Comments From address@hidden  2004-02-24 13:36 -------
+Something I would like to point out here. 
+The letter A acts as a consonant, *only* when it is followed by halant
++ ya. In other cases, it should act as a normal vowel. I have just
+received a file where the user using a version of pango with the _ct
+hack wrote Bengali letter AA as A + AA vowel sign. Visually the result
+is the same, but can cause problems while searching anddoing  other
+stuff. Example rendering at
+http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/images/garbage.png
+
+Recently I had the chance to play around with a Microsoft Windows XP
+box - and they can't handle a halant ya - as Microsoft has not
+released official Bengali supporting version of Uniscribe yet.