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

[Gora Mohanty]

TAKAHASHI Naoto <ntakahas at m17n.org> wrote:> Thank you for your reply.

> Gora Mohanty writes:

>> They all look fine except for ta + ta (U0B24).  Please look at
>> the HTML version of the conjuncts file for the proper
>> rendering. It is also possible that you are using an older
>> version of the font. If so, please download the latest one
>> from:
>   > http://oriya.sarovar.org/download/utkal.ttf.gz

> I downloaded the font above and compared it with the one 
 > installed on my machine.  They were identical.

> I investigated the font using fontforge and our own font utility.  
 > The Utkal font generates the conjuncts KTA, NTA, PTA, STA,
 > which are rendered correctly by m17n-edit, with the "blws"
 > feature.  However, the Utkal font generates the conjunct TTA 
 > with the "pres" feature. That is why m17n-edit fails to render
 > TTA.

> Of course I can modify our rendering component so that it 
 > matches this specification, but is it really what you intended?
 > Shouldn't TTA be generated with "blws" like other *TA
 > conjuncts?
 [...]
 I am not an expert in OpenType fonts, and am copying this reply 
  to our resident font designer, Rajesh Pradhan, who might be able
  to comment further. However, Pango, QT and ICU do render this
  correctly.
 
 Regards,
 Gora
 

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