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Lohit fonts family project to supporting Indian scripts.
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Letter ஸ்ரீ in Tamil Classical #74

Open shakthimaan opened 8 years ago

shakthimaan commented 8 years ago

Thanks for creating Lohit Tamil Classical!

There is one letter that I am not able to input in Lohit Tamil Classical, which is ஸ்ரீ. At present, the Unicode character for the same is being shown as ஶ in location 0BB6. In the Lohit Tamil Classical font, this must be replaced with ஸ்ரீ.

Would it be possible to make this change?

Thanks!

jamadagni commented 8 years ago

ஶ is the correct glyph for the Unicode character 0BB6. There is no Unicode character for ஶ்ரீ. ஶ்ரீ is a ligature of ஶ + ் + ர + ீ. That is how it is implemented in Lohit Tamil (both normal and classical). So there is nothing to do here. To get ஶ்ரீ you have to input ஶ + ் + ர + ீ and you will get the ligature. Right now that is what I am doing and I'm getting the ligature, so there is no problem at all.

In your bug report you have input ஶ்ரீ as ஸ + ் + ர + ீ, which has not been the Unicode-recommended sequence for this ligature for quite some time now. Lohit supports that too for backward compatibility, I guess.

Given this, I don't see that there is any issue here at all. This should be closed as "NOTABUG" (in Bugzilla-style trackers, LOL).

shakthimaan commented 8 years ago

I tried ஶ + ் + ர + ீ in GNU Emacs 24.5.1 and it is showing up as "ஶ் ரீ" (without the space). But, if I copy them together and paste it here, the browser renders it correctly an ஶ்ரீ.

jamadagni commented 8 years ago

If there is a limitation with the software then it is that which should be fixed.