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

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Sajith VK said on Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:00:03PM +0530,:

 > Also Opentype spec. says 
 > 	 "In scripts like Malayalam, the halant form of certain
 > consonants is represented by 'chillaksharams'."


Kindly go through the following mail from somebody at Microsoft.

<quote>

 > Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 11:25:39 -0700
 > From: "Paul Nelson (TYPOGRAPHY)" <paulnel at winse.microsoft.com>

<snip> 

 > Message-id:
 >  <49C257E2C13F584790B2E302E021B6F908848AB2 at winse-msg-01.segroup.winse.corp.microsoft.com>
 > 
 > The Malayalam computer/font community has posted documents that clearly
 > state that the chillu form is created by <cons> halant ZWJ. That is also
 > documented in TUS.
 > 
 > The fact that a developer was not using a font that correctly supports a
 > script should not drive changing the standard. Any font made for
 > Malayalam support *must* have the chillu form glyphs present to be
 > considered to be a functioning font.
 > 
 > At least both Linux (http://www.linuxense.com/oss/render) and Windows
 > are doing the right shaping for the chillu forms. I believe that putting
 > the chillu form on a keyboard as a ligature makes this very easy from a
 > user perspective. I don't see why an encoding change is required.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > 
 > Paul
</quote>

Is that convincing enough?  

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