[Smc-discuss] Re: Chillaksharams-Malayalam Unicode standard

[Sajith VK]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 16:01, Saravanan wrote:
> Hello,
>    
>    I am using RH9.0 with latest Pango patches installed. According to
> Unicode consortium for producing the Malayalam chillaksharams one
> should press the correspondig consonant, Chandrakala & a zero width
> Jointer.Eg: ണ്= ണ+്+ ZWJ(Zero Width Joiner).
In which document is this specified? In our font, we made consonant +
Chandrakala =chillaksharam. As far as I know this is the opentype
standard... So can you please point us to the document which specifies
about the standard you mention?
>      I have a unicode font MLU-Panini which is developed accocrding to
> the Unicode standard. In windows I used to get Chillaksharams(pure
> consonants) by pressing the correspondig consonant, Chandrakala & the
> keys Ctrl+Shift+1 ( Unicode key- U+200d). But in Linux when i press
> the zero width jointer I am getting an "image" like symbol.
In the ml keybord we uses, zwj is at  "]"... This is the position
of "nuka" in ISM keyboard... ctrl+shift+1 gives you unicode charecter 1,
which is in no way ZWJ....
>    What is the problem here. What changes & where should it be done in
> order to get the proper rendering of the malayalam font, which is
> strictly following the the unicode standard.
I still doubt, it follows unicode standard... I will check it.....
Is it a free font? If yes please send it to us...... Who made
this? 
>  
> Note: In the case of default RH malayalam font, on pressing the
> Chandrakala itself we are getting the Chillakasharams. In that case
> how could you display ണ+് separated  ie, Consonant without vowel
> sound.
According to opentpe standard, consonant+chandrakala+zwnj should
display them seperated. But pango doesnot support it yet.
So you can use Consonent+ZWJ+chandrakala for this...... 

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