RE: [Freebangfont-devel] Bengali OT specification

[Kaushik Ghose]

Hi Andy,

On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Andy White wrote:

> The point is that ta+hashanta+zwj should lead to a half form. The half
> form could be a 'half sized ta' or you may want to use khondoto, but
> since there would be no mechanism left for displaying to_hosonto I
> propose that  to_hosonto should be used.

But, to_hoshonto is to+hoshonto+zwnj (in keeping with other glyphs like
ko+hoshonto...) so there is a mehcanism for this...

( http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/indic.html#19 )


> Also I final to see why something such as: 'to hosonto ZWJ so ikar'
> which would be rendered as: 'ikar to hosonto so' = tsi, is a problem. 
> (tsi is how the Greeks pronounce the English word tea)

Wouldn't that go to+hoshonto+so+ikar 
(rendered as "to hashonto ikar so") 
and pronounced t-si ?
-kg