On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 11:12, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > Owen Taylor said on Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 10:33:32AM -0400,: > > > As I read Peter Constable's proposal, I think you would need: > > > > ka + u + <space> + zwj + h + ya > > > > That is, the syllable 'ku' followed by an isolated post-base form > > of ya. > > > > ka + u + h + ya > > I am not very sure that this proposal applies to Malayalam, and if at > all, how it is relevant. I had forwarded this to some of the Indic > language related lists, but nobody has responded so far. The proposal perhaps isn't as *interesting* for Malayalam as for some other languages since 'va' and 'ya' don't typically form ligatures with the base consonant. (As far as I know.) But I don't see why it wouldn't be relevant. > As of now, h + ya and h+va (0D35) show the correct substitution in the > font I used in the (attached) png, but not for Akruti. Ummm ... the > ligature ya exists in Akruti, as char 163; and ligature va is 123, > which too does not render as expected. In malotf, the respective > glyphs are 208 and 210. In the non-otf Malayalam.ttf, the glyphs are > ed2f, and 3d35 (va) resepctively. > > I think I have just stumbled on some bug in Akruti here. The ya > ligature is rendered only with the h+ya+h+ya sequence, which renders > as halant+ligature+standalone ya. Hmmm... Akruti is behaving > strangely here. An isolated 'h + ya' is not something that the Unicode standard envisions. I'm not sure we should worry too much about how it renders. While eventually I'd like to have well-defined rendering output for any arbitrary sequence of characters, the ones that matter most are: - Correctly encoded according to Unicode - Represent sequences actually found in texts Regards, Owen
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