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Noto Gurmukhi
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Characters in Noto Gurmukhi #17

Closed shuchita-g closed 7 years ago

shuchita-g commented 7 years ago

screen shot 2016-10-28 at 3 21 36 pm Can you please clarify the use of these characters present in the noto gurmukhi glyphset. Thanks

TidharC commented 7 years ago

According to the Unicode standard, these are common Indic number forms:

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA830.pdf

Assigning to MT for more information on inclusion in Noto Sans Gurmukhi.

roozbehp commented 7 years ago

These are common Indic numbers forms, that according to Unicode are used in various Indic scripts, including Gurmukhi. From http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/ScriptExtensions.txt:

A836..A837    ; Deva Gujr Guru Kthi Mahj Modi Sind Takr Tirh # So   [2] NORTH INDIC QUARTER MARK..NORTH INDIC PLACEHOLDER MARK
A838          ; Deva Gujr Guru Kthi Mahj Modi Sind Takr Tirh # Sc       NORTH INDIC RUPEE MARK
A839          ; Deva Gujr Guru Kthi Mahj Modi Sind Takr Tirh # So       NORTH INDIC QUANTITY MARK