marekjez86
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9 years ago I presented the following characters to several Nepali users (note the chars were fully presented in the attached files - not cut like here):
I got two responses:
from ST: "Hi Marek, All four are readable, and I would think of them as different Nepali fonts. However, the second one (noto-20150807.png) has the chandrabindu overlapping, which does not look good."
from GSK: "agreed. noto-20150807.png is still readable at this size but there shouldn't be any overlap"
The respondent sample 100% voted for non-overlapping candrabindu
JelleBosmaMT
jungshik
cibu
roozbehp
xiangyexiao
nizarsq
simoncozens
copied from https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-alpha/issues/206
Imported from Google Code issue notofonts/noto-fonts#206 created by roozbeh@google.com on 2014-04-18T01:57:00.000Z:
The sequence DDA+AU+CANDRABINDU (0921,094C,0901) in Noto Sans Devanagari results in the AU vowel and the CANDRABINDU intersecting.
See sample rendering from Noto, together with renderings from SIL's Annapurna and Microsoft's Utsaah and Nirmala.
This issue is especially important for Nepali, as it commonly uses candrabindu in its normal orthography.
This also happens with the other vowels going over the hanging line: II, SHORT E, E, AI, CANDRA O, SHORT O, and O.
In the UI fonts, there is another bug (issue notofonts/khmer#12) that predicts me from testing this at the moment, but after fixing that issue, the UI fonts should also be tested to make sure the glyphs don't intersect.
Comment #2 originally posted by jelle.bosma@monotypeimaging.com on 2014-04-18T07:17:59.000Z:
This is not a bug of Noto, but a design decision to make a ligature of the marks. Similar to the reph, which joins with the vowel in order not to end up on the next syllable. In the other three fonts the candrabindu is too far to the right and might be covered by an i-vowel or another top mark on the following syllable. In Noto it might still touch an i-vowel or a mark to the right, but you can always recognise it. Which is definitely not the case in the other three fonts!
nirmala.png
noto.png
sil.png
utsaah.png
--- dougfelt commented on Jul 10
This is still an issue.
It seems that one could let the candrabindu be farther to the right when there was no mark for it to interfere with, and only use the squeezed position when necessary. This would involve taking more context into account. What do the other fonts do? Does text with interfering marks occur frequently? --- JelleBosmaMT commented on Jul 11 This is NOT an issue!