On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 13:22, Gollum wrote: > > hi > i have a query kaushik told me that you hace done work on OTF Fonts. Can I > ask what is the yukhtakshar problem is. UNicode defines it quiet well now all > that is required is to render it if we have the proper fonts. I am no expert > on this. is'nt his how things work. unicode defines the charecter set and > then fonts are used to render it. > What I want to know is what exactly is the problem. I wonder if there are > yukhtakshar charecters in the font can't we use them. and another thing is > what other problems are there in rendering bangla.
yes, unicode does quite a good job with Bangla - at least it does not miss out any chars and things like that to display the conjuncts, we need a renderer that is capable of handling open type fonts at a very basic level these fonts have tables in them which tell the renderer what glyphs (the things what u see on the screen) to display when it finds a particular sequence of characters for example, if the renderer sees ka hasat ka it should display the glyphs for kaeka there are other types of tables in OTF (GPOS - which handles positioning, etc) however, indic script is more complex than that for example, for the sequence, ka ikaar the ikaar goes in front - and this means that any font renderer would not be able to handle these scripts however, pango, does support the bengali script - and as i have posted in the list, it can handle otf rendering for bengali fonts (see screenshots) however, there might be bugs in there - since it is not well tested :) so, i believe that we can start translating gnome right now - and what's more, provided we get enough *working* volunteers we can start translating the RedHat installer into bangla this would be fun ;) > > PS. Oh can I call you Gimli the dwarf. It will be easier for me to remember > you. and it's just a sugestion. sure - just hope that i remember that name ;) -iti- sdg ____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list [Bangla Penguin] send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe banglapenguin' in the subjectline and body. Archive of this mailing list is available at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
