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On Fri, 22 Mar 2013, Roman Czyborra wrote:
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:59:36 +0100 From: Roman Czyborra <czyborra@campus.tu-berlin.de> To: Raghavendra R S <raghavendra.rs@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Hardy <hardy_paul@hotmail.com>, Gaspar Sinai <gaspar@yudit.org>, Matthias Tellen <matthiastellen@gmail.com>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, linux-utf8@kernelnewbies.org, indic@unicode.org Subject: Re: Reg the unifont file
Dear Raghu,
thank you for your mail from 2010 and please excuse my lack of spontaneity and responsibility back then, but thru another discussion Ive just come across it again:
Hi Czyborra,
This is Raghu. I am using the unifont.ttf (version 1.0.0 General Public License) in one of my application. This unifont file works fine for most of the languages. But I am facing and issue with the devanagari language. In devanagari we can create combined characters using the combination of 2 or more individual characters. The final combined character is shown as a single character instead of 2 or more individual character that we enter. But I am not able to see the combined character when I use the unifont.ttf file.
You have mentioned in your website http://www.lgm.cl/trabajos/unifont/index.en.html that the
" Well-known problems The combining characters are not being handled correctly. I will repair it when it has time. :P ".
That was not me mentioning that and not my website http://czyborra.com/unifont/ but somebody else's who thankfully worked on my work carried on by others since.
This is the same problem that I am facing in my devanagai characters. I was able to get around this issue by copying the missing glyphs and the lookup table from the chandas.ttf font file available @ www.sanskritweb.net/cakram/chandas.ttf into the unifont.ttf. But with the Chandas.ttf we have a licensing issue as it does not have the font exception.
Back in 1998 we were still struggling with much more basic problems and lacking a better idea and understanding I intended to create a minimalistic solution along the traditional CJK terminal solutions lining up text in bitmap boxes which should make UTF-8 byte strings' intented meaning guessable by simply mapping each character to a meaningful glyph, somewhat like a 1980's hexdump disassembler did.
So since you have mentioned that you will rectify the devanagari combined characters , when can we expect the next version of the Unifont.ttf file which solves the issue with the devanagari combined characters?
If you can provide any guidance for us less educated on how to make the Indic scripts readable with bitmap cells, I would love to resolve this you as a contact person.
Regards: Roman