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

[Sajith VK]

Hi mahesh,
	Now we need to summaries the discussion, to
form the standard... I think smc need a page to show
rendering standard...(Currently rajkumar has a page
showing rendering rules)

 Also all arguments discucssed in case of 
"chilluforming consonent" + virama need to be documented
for easy referance...

I will try it.....


On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 22:11, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> 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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