JelleBosmaMT
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9 years ago Noto Sans Devanagari has been designed for use as typeface for user interfaces and general purpose documents. It supports Sanskrit to the extend that it has all necessary (Unicode) characters to display Sanskrit as a language. The document variant supports Vedic marks when used by applications that to not clip characters that exceed the given ascender and descender values. (Chrome browser on Android, Safari on Mac, IE on Windows 8.x for example). A font that has a broad support for Vedic text would have much larger ascender and descender values, which would limit its use for other purposes.
I do not have a point of view if having a full complement of ligatures is necessary or desirable for Sanskrit. But it seems very likely that those that prefer to see stacked ligatures for every possible conjunct, probably prefer a “serif” style of font too. So even when we add them to the Sans font, it may still be disliked.
So I stick to what I have said about the issue earlier. If there is going to be a “Vedic” font, it has to be separate, and in the serif style. But it has been decided by Google, to support Sanskrit within the boundaries of a UI and general purpose font for now.
On 10-jun.-15 02:42, "Xiangye Xiao" notifications@github.com wrote:
Assigned notofonts/devanagari#1 https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/371 to @JelleBosmaMT https://github.com/JelleBosmaMT. — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/371#event-326911678.
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Original issue reported on code.google.com by
mesharap...@gmail.comon 15 May 2015 at 5:47