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Add U+0C5D NAKAARA POLLU #16

Closed iwsfutcmd closed 1 year ago

iwsfutcmd commented 1 year ago

Both Noto Sans Telugu and Noto Serif Telugu do not currently have glyphs for U+0C5D NAKAARA POLLU (Nakāra-Pollu), which was added in Unicode 14.0.

"Nakāra-Pollu" is the Telugu term for a grapheme that represents a final (vowelless) -n. It appears primarily in older Telugu texts, with modern texts usually representing final -n with the standard Telugu letter na (U+0C28) followed by a virama (U+0C4D). The grapheme rests on the baseline and shaping-wise does not interact with the preceding or following graphemes.

Visually, it is similar to the existing rephtelu glyphs, although with four horizontal strokes rather than three.

For complete information on the character, see the Unicode proposal here: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20084r-telugu-nakaara-pollu.pdf

and the Telugu section of the Unicode Standard here: https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch12.pdf

simoncozens commented 1 year ago

Thank you! We've started automatically tracking Noto coverage here (with a "gap list" here), so there's no need to create individual issues about missing codepoints. However, they are useful for instilling a sense of urgency and collecting information about the characters. :-)

I'm hoping to have some budget allocated for Indic extensions this year and have people lined up to get them drawn, but things are still in flux.

iwsfutcmd commented 1 year ago

Good to hear this is on the radar! My figuring was it would also be useful because I can post some information on the form and usage of the characters in question here in the issue tracker for whomever happens to be doing the improvements.

Is this the ideal place to put that? Or do you have another place you're storing that stuff?