[Freebangfont-devel] Re: +AFs-Freebangfont-devel+AF0- RE: FREE Bangla Software Avro Keyboard - NewVersion Available

[jn]



Dear Deepayan,

 

In using Likhan, when I type ta+halant, it immediately create the khandatta.

However, after that, typing ZWJ doesn't cause any problem.

But the developer didn't use exactly ta+halant+ZWJ to create khandatta.

 

Sagar is only using ta+halant to make khandatta.

 

This issue is important because I have to make it hardcoded in my

software. Here, some are working with ta+halant, rest are ta+halant+ZWJ.

This is really causing problem in typing and searching also. Just think in this

version, as most fonts are using ta+halant, I have hardcoded it to make

khandatta. In the next version, if I make ta+halant+ZWJ to create khandatta,

users will face problem in the "search and replace" type operations.

Again, if the fonts are updated, they will see that in their documents,

all khandatta has been changed to foolish ta+halant.

This is demolishing the Goodwill of both FBF and Avro Keyboard.

 

Sources are available with the fonts. If the original developers are inactive,

why others are not taking care of this issue. This should be a ten minutes work for you.

 

Mehdi Hasan
WEB: www.omicronlab.com
Avro Keyboard: http://www.omicronlab.com/avrokeyboard/

----- Original Message -----

From: "Deepayan Sarkar" <address@hidden>

To: <address@hidden>

Cc: "Deepayan Sarkar" <address@hidden>; "Bangla-Font" <address@hidden>

Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:24 AM

Subject: Re: [Freebangfont-devel] RE: FREE Bangla Software Avro Keyboard - NewVersion Available

> address@hidden wrote:
> 
> >  
> > /"I think I know about this, and I'm pretty 
sure the person who posted
> > this
> > violated the agreement 
MS provided this font to him under. I doubt MS is
> > going to 
prosecute, but Vrindra is definitely not publicly available
> > now, 
and
> > I doubt that it's ever going to be released under a license 
that permits
> > redistribution anyway."/
> > // 
> > 
---What do you suggest me? Should I remove this font? May this font
> > 
create problem on me in the future? I need your suggestion.....
> 
> 
> It's really very simple. The Vrindra font is the property of 
Microsoft.
> Unless the owner has given you permission to distribute it 
(either via
> personal communication or via a license agreement), you have 
no legal
> right to distribute someone else's property.
> 
> 
Whether you will get into trouble if you keep distributing it depends on
> 
Microsoft, I have no idea what they will do.
> 
> 
> About the 
Khanda ta issue: This is nothing new, the Unicode consortium
> has 
recommended encoding khanda ta as ta + halanta + ZWJ for a long
> time. I 
think we (the FBF developers) were a bit confused about this
> until a 
while back. But I think Likhan now has the correct lookup (have
> you 
checked ?), and Sagar should as well. Mukti, unfortunately has been
> a 
bit problematic, mainly because its creator is no longer very active.
> We 
will have to do something about that.
> 
> Deepayan
> 
> 
> 
> 
>