[Oriya-group] Fwd: Status of Oriya localization and support

[TAKAHASHI Naoto]

Greetings from Japan.

Gora Mohanty writes:

> 3. Rendering: This was checked using a comprehensive list of 
>    Oriya conjuncts that we prepared, and which is available as
>    http://oriya.sarovar.org/download/or_conjuncts.utf8 (UTF-8)
>    or http://oriya.sarovar.org/download/or_conjuncts.html
>    (HTML version of the above).

Thanks to this file, I found a bug in the m17n rendering component and
fixed it.  A new version of the m17n library will be released shortly.

>   (d) There are  other renderers like m17n, and even the base 
>         X system now seems to have some functions for
>        rendering UTF-8 text, but these have yet to be checked
>        thoroughly.

I prepared screenshots of the test file rendered by m17n-edit.  We
shall be delighted if someone give them a look and provide us a
comment.

  http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib/images/oriya1.png
  http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib/images/oriya2.png
  http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib/images/oriya3.png
  http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib/images/oriya4.png
  http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib/images/oriya5.png
  http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib/images/oriya6.png
  http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib/images/oriya7.png
  http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib/images/oriya8.png

Here are my questions and notes.

1. The following combinations did not result in conjuncts:

   DDA + GA
   DA  + GA
   LLA + PA
   LLA + PHA

   Is it a bug in our system?  Or, does the Utkal font lack these
   conjuncts?

2. The combination of SA and PHA is shown in line 56.  However, the
   example in the right hand side shows the combination of SA and PA.
   Is it a typo?

Best regards,

-- 
TAKAHASHI Naoto
ntakahas at m17n.org
http://www.m17n.org/ntakahas/