[Oriya-group] Rebati project font issues

[Rajesh Pradhan]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:52:42 +0500, hrpansari at vsnl.net said:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gora Mohanty <gora_mohanty at yahoo.co.in>
> Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 0:30 am
> Subject: [Oriya-group] Rebati project font issues
> 
> > 2. We will type up an exhaustive list of conjuncts to
> > test that they are being
> >   formed correctly. Currently, this is not for
> > cosmetic issues, but for
> >   outright errors, such as earlier problems where lla
> > was being used in the
> >   conjuncts where la should have been used. You are
> > welcome to send in any
> >   problems that you have noticed.
> > 3. The issue of the ZWNJ (U200C) and ZWJ (U200D) being
> > included in the font
> >   was raised by Pansaribabu. While I agree that they
> > are indeed useful, I
> >   have changed my mind about it being indispensable
> > to include them in the
> >   Oriya font, as they are already available in many
> > other Unicode fonts,
> >   including raghu.ttf. I will leave it up to the font
> > people to decide
> >   whether to do this.
> 
> Without ZWNJ (U200C) and ZWJ (U200D) above aim of proper rendering of
> Oriya conjucts may not be achieved. May see OT specifications.
> These two are not any visible characters, but practically control
> characters. 
> 
> Using it from raghu.ttf or other, user has to install extra fonts. The
> mail/webpages composed with Utkalm.ttf may not render properly at
> destination/viewer end.
> 
> Including these is very easy, just by copying it from Raght.ttf or any
> other font, as no shaping is required.
>
I shall work on this next week and include them in the font. Has anybody
come across any other issue while doing the translation?

- rajesh
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