Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Bangla Unicode stuff!

[Taneem Ahmed]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:

> Let's consider the ra+hasanta+ya case first. This obviously seems to be an 
> instance of (2). Does anyone know of a real word which demonstrates this 
> ambiguity ? Taneem mentioned ra+hasanta+ya, but that's not a word. And in any 
> case, I don't recall ever seeing any bengali word which started with a 'ra' 
> where it was displayed as a 'reph', so if we really are forced to take a 
> decision about this, I would say ra + ya-phala. But I would contend that we 
> should _not_ worry about non-existent words.

Sorry if I mislead you, I didn't mean ra+hasanta+ya as a word, but just as
a sequence. It does not need to be the begining of a word. "karjo" (work)
is an example of this sequence. There are many words with this sequence.

 
> Next, consider khondo-to. In my understanding, khondo-to is just a 
> representation for ta+hasanta, when it is not combined with the following 
> consonant, if any. This is handled well, in my opinion, by a halant form for 
> ta in an opentype font, and ZWNJ. I don't see why it should be more special 
> than the other consonants in bengali. 

We don't need a new khondo-ta, but Unicode's standard has issues regarding
rendering. Please take a look at Andy's web page, he has detailed
information about this issue.

Taneem

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