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[Freebangfont-devel] k.ss.na or k.ss.nna ?
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TAKAHASHI Naoto |
Subject: |
[Freebangfont-devel] k.ss.na or k.ss.nna ? |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:49:50 +0900 (JST) |
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SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) |
Thank you for providing great Bangla fonts.
We are researchers working at a national institute in Japan. We have
been developing a software library to multilingualise Unix/Linux
software. Our library helps writing application programs that need to
display/input/edit various languages and scripts including, of course,
Bangla.
http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib/
We have tested our rendering algorithm using the MuktiNarrow.ttf and
LikhanNormal.otf fonts, and found a inconsistency in ligature
formation.
MuktiNarrow.ttf generates a ligature from the three consonants:
KA(U+0995) SSA(U+09B7) NA(U+09A8)
LikhanNormal.otf, on the other hand, generates a very similar ligature
from the following combination:
KA(U+0995) SSA(U+09B7) NNA(U+09A3)
Only the last consonats differ each other.
I consulted a linguistic encyclopedia. It says KA+SSA+NA generates a
ligature. (Mukti got one point.)
I also consulted backnumbers of the TDIL Newsletter. It says
KA+SSA+NNA generates a ligature. (Likhan got one points.)
Frankly speaking, I am confused. Would you kindly shed us a light?
(Both fonts generate the same ligature from KA+SSA+MA, by the way.)
Another question: I have been unable to find a Bangla opentype font
that supports not only Bangla but also Assamese. Since the number of
additional characters are very small (only two, if I remember
correctly), it should not be difficult for font developers to add
Assamese support. Do you have any plan to do so, or are there any
such fonts?
Best regards,
--
TAKAHASHI Naoto
address@hidden
http://www.m17n.org/ntakahas/
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